All right, it can work – but let's keep the thumbscrew under lock and key
By David Aaronovitch (THE TIMES, 06/12/05):
In San Gimignano, when the tourist tires of all that piazza and vista stuff, she can always take a break and go and visit the museum of torture. Inside the pleasant medieval town-house are exhibited all kinds of devices that you will have heard of — the rack, the thumbscrew, the iron maiden; and quite a few that you haven't, though most of those are just for gouging various body parts. The recent interest in the reigns of the Tudors and the quatercentenary of the Gunpowder Plot have reminded us of how recently, and with what skill, some of these implements were deployed on behalf of the
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