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To the south of town on the Gianyar road is Pura Dalem Penuggekan, a typical example of the many temples for the dead: Carved friezes show the nightmarish tortures awaiting sinners in the after-life.
In this version, Lolita is a knowing seductress who tortures her pet hamster and feels no sadness at her mother's death.
It went on: "Memories of Pinochet's mass killings and tortures, by contrast, are all too fresh, and the precedent of his arrest has international ramifications."
Art rarely tortures you so single-mindedly.
And if Posner tells the government that whatever tortures it has in mind will do more harm than good, the government will have to listen hard.