Chapter Twelve
Exercised To Exhaustion
She stopped about five metres from the machine and allowed me to inspect it, but I could make no immediate sense from what I saw and she didn’t bother to explain.
Essentially, it consisted of a four metre high, half metre diameter post. This had a series of broad bands along its length and from each of these, four, five metre long thick arms stuck outward; essentially they were spokes, and at their outer ends and a half metre closer to the post, light chains dangled in wait. The lowest set was at crotch level, then the one above was at my mid-chest height. The one above that was at the top of my head height and the highest one was at the top of the post. From one of the chest high spokes, a two litre bottle of water hung; a long rubber hose coiled
