You can do nothing and risk stagnation, or you can fall back on discipline, even if it incurs some sort of pain. Is there anything worse than to feel a malise of the soul? The anaesthesia that settles in after you fail yourself yet again.
On the day we were leaving, the woman who ran the little store at the resort there was crying when she saw the cat in the carrier. I don't really know what I thought then.
Beneath the arena floor was the hypogeum, a network of tunnels, cages, and elevators where gladiators, wild animals, and stage machinery waited before appearing in the arena. Many of the spectacular “surprise” moments were possible because of this advanced underground system.