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    The Thinking Machine, Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, argues with friends that the mind can escape from any prison cell using only the brain. To prove his point, he locks himself in the most secure cell in the prison and challenges himself to escape within a week using just his wits and casual clothes. Through clever thinking and maneuvering, he is able to dismantle and escape his cell on the seventh day, proving his theory that the mind can overcome any physical barriers.

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    The Thinking Machine, Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, argues with friends that the mind can escape from any prison cell using only the brain. To prove his point, he locks himself in the most secure cell in the prison and challenges himself to escape within a week using just his wits and casual clothes. Through clever thinking and maneuvering, he is able to dismantle and escape his cell on the seventh day, proving his theory that the mind can overcome any physical barriers.

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    SYNOPSIS - The Problem of Cell 13

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    The Thinking Machine, Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, argues with friends that the mind can escape from any prison cell using only the brain. To prove his point, he locks himself in the most secure cell in the prison and challenges himself to escape within a week using just his wits and casual clothes. Through clever thinking and maneuvering, he is able to dismantle and escape his cell on the seventh day, proving his theory that the mind can overcome any physical barriers.

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    The Problem Of Cell 13

    Jacques Futrelle

    Level: pre-intermediate
    Genre: adventure
    Length: short
    English: british

    Rating: +49 (from 61 votes)

    The public knew Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen as The


    Thinking Machine and perhaps this phrase described him best of all.
    He always was in his small laboratory where he invented brilliant
    theories that shocked scientists and had a profound effect on the
    world. One time he argued with his friends, he tried to convince that
    “the mind is master of everything”. “No man can escape from a cell
    just using only his brain. If it would be possible, no prisoners would
    be at all. Just let’s imagine a case. A cell for prisoners who are
    condemned to death. These men will do anything to try to escape.
    Imagine you were in that cell. Could you escape?” “Certainly, lock
    me in any cell of any prison where you want at any time, give me
    only casual clothes, and I’ll escape from there only in a week.”

    Total words: 8475


    Unique words: 1042

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    abnormally, bizarre, grotesque, profound, warden, arrogance, barred, incarceration, dismantle,


    linel, superfluos, errorized, manoeuvre, clay.

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