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The best modern prison memoirs-- The Autobiography of Malcolm X , Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast , Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice , and Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai --are stories about an agony that yields redemption.
The agonizers are folks like Elizabeth Dole and George W. Bush, and their agony isn't moral, goodness knows.
In his most recent public apology, President Clinton said that congressional condemnation would be pretty bad, but "there is no greater agony" than something he's suffered already.
Rocker Stevie Nicks solved the wandering implant problem by having her silicone breast implants removed and keeping them in her freezer "to remind me of the agony," according to the Globe . And the Enquirer reports that singer Tina Turner's breast implants "drifted so far apart she lost her cleavage."
Henley endured years of agony, and his poem, Invictus, was truly written from experience.