Gradually his thoughts grew more and more confused, and we two perceived, step by step, day by day, evidences that his reason was failing, until his talk became at last that of a lunatic.
Kropotkin observes the gradual decline of a prisoner's sanity, a poignant commentary on the effects of isolation.
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