Item of evidence, notebook.

First page:

the eyes, its in the eyes.
window on the, the word soul crossed out.
each pair represents something.
looking is searching
predatory hunters.

Second page:

to desire - possession
to be desired - the word importance crossed out substituted by power

Third page:

isolation
frustration - hunger
window
eye
mirror
lens
diagram, presumably of lens focusing light
below this,
mind thought feeling language
word lens.

Fourth page:

War.
to hate - desire destruction.
to be hated - threatened with destruction.
space, isolation.

Fifth page:

war is cursed,
desire too.
cursed to fail.
cursed by, sentence unfinished.

Sixth page:

cursed by the world at, word heart crossed out.
inside the word the dead
the dead curse war, desire too.
curse on possession and destruction.

Seventh page:

Feelings from inside speak words and feelings.
language as a lens between words and feelings.
This too included in that.
The necessity of the lens for seeing things focused.
Two eyed language.
possession and desire.
Third, internal eye or eyes, inside. Seeing the seeing.
Thus too language.
Possession, desire and calm.

Eighth page:

The calm.
Calmness.
The periods of calm.

The writing ends here. There are several unused pages remaining. The last page has been hastily torn out.

Thank you.

The official returned to his seat. The eyes of the judges raised themselves from where they had been resting, scanning the piles of evidence accumulated on the floor infront of them. Raised themselves and turned on Fishface, who sat idly wondering how he could talk himself out of this. Calm the waters, walk across them, leaving their crucifixion behind. Could there be a curse on that too …

The prisoner will stand.

What had been written on that last page? He paused to think. He remembered. Three words: habit of escape. That’s me. As he stood up he caught sight of two beautiful eyes peering out at him from a ventilator grill high up on the wall behind his judges. Angelino! Feelings surged inside him. Keep calm, must keep calm.