You got a job as a nurse in an unusual laboratory. Why were you told to keep quiet at the interview? Going into one of the long dark rooms, you first saw an artificially beating heart in a glass cabinet, and then the one to whom it belonged. It's a head! no torso at all! without arms and legs! just think of a living head and pipes attached to it. This is the head of a young, handsome, once ruddy young man. He did not speak: a mute, sad grimace froze on his face. This life is torture for him.