The narrator start off saying that he saw the lips of the judges giving him the death sentences by the Inquisition (Catholic government in the 15th and the 16th century in Spain). While he sees the judges he see those seven tall candles on the table and start to hallucinate; thinking that the seven candles were angles who came to save him but then it became clear that they were not going to save him that they were just candles.
When the narrator receives his death sentence, he swoons losing consciousness. When he wakes up he saw complete darkness, at first he did what to open his eye because he was scared that he would be bewared alive but then he open them eyes to complete darkness and rises his arms to his cheats to see how far to the walls of the cellar to find out how bigger the cellar is. He was keeping his mind occupied for then he wouldn't get crazy. So he decides to explore. He tears off a piece of his garment and
Then he started to walk again where he left off; he finds out that the cellar is about 100 paces around. Then he decides to walk across the room. While he was walking the rag he ripped off of his clothes twists around his feet and it makes him trip. He notices that his chin rested on the ground but his lips and upper portion of his head didn't touch anything. He fingers out that he would have fallen into the abyss if he had tripped on the rag. He would have fallen in a deep hole with water that could have some thing in it so he would have a slow death. He fall asleep again and when he wake up he found more water and bread. He imagined that the water was drugged because right after he drunk the water he falls asleep.
leaves it at one point next to a wall so that he can count the numbers of steps he takes to go the whole way around the cellar. When he got half way he fall down to the ground, where he falls asleep. Whe
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