[ WP ] You 're in hell , your punishment is to read a book that is infinite , every 1000 years the bookmark you placed in it vanishes forcing you to start from the beginning .

The new recruit Paul came in carrying a thin blue book on his back. 
 
 `` What's that, See Spot Run?'' called Carmen. Carmen has the biggest and heaviest book of all of us because she reads the fastest, or so they say. The pages of her book cover her like a blanket. They are indistinguishable from her rolls of fat. Carmen's been a sitter since I arrived. 
 
 It became evident that Paul would be a pacer, especially with a book that light. He opened it up. The first page was marked `` 0.'' Curious, he flipped to the last page. It said `` 1.'' There were clearly pages in between. It looked like the previous owner had spilled coffee around the one-fourth (? ) page. 
 
 He flipped to the exact middle: a page marked `` 1/2.'' With his naive excitement, he removed his bookmark and started pacing around more while reading page pi/4. We were in awe watching him. He probably did n't notice it but he was slowly decelerating -- the book must have been good for him to forget how to move. His eyes were fixed lingering on the last line. 
 
 `` So what happens next, big boy?'' Carmen yelled over from her corner. 
 
 The fresh blood looked frightened, and for the first time the smirk vanished from his face. `` I do n't know....'' he muttered. 
 
 `` Well, just turn the damn page.'' She demonstrated mockingly with one of her sheets. 
 
 `` I ca n't.'' From where I was sitting, it looked like there were pages glued to the back of the pi/4 page. 
 
 He did n't like to linger on his embarrassment and instead haphazardly flipped to a page near the beginning. `` This one's better anyway.'' After a while: `` What!! Not the life support!'' But when he reached the end of that page he looked just as dejected. He discreetly ( discretely ) tried to get closer and closer to the back of the page he was reading. But it was not long before he became a sitter just like the rest of us. 
 
 Carmen returned to reading after a while, she'd been reading about Queen Elizabeth for the past couple hundred years. I'm not sure what drove Paul to go crazy. Maybe it was Carmen and her frequent page turns, maybe it was never getting to find out what happened next, but he eventually shut up. Welcome to hell, Paul. Welcome.
