The author has been a professor at the University of Central Florida since 1976. In this part of the state this is known as "doing hard time." He comes up for parole in 2004 and plans to make an honest living once he returns to society. For more details on his sordid life, see his personal webpage
At night Pyle (#8232687) uses this little hammer to dig a tunnel through the prison wall. In the daytime he pays his debt to society by making things like this: