The Jacket Chapter 11 Part 1

In which a man imprisoned in a strait-jacket embarks on a profound experiment of the mind, willing his corporeal sensations to cease and journeying through cosmic realms of extended time and space, only to be forcibly recalled by the knuckle tapping of his fellow inmate. Thereafter, he inhabits the life of Count Guillaume de Sainte-Maure in medieval France, where intrigue, love, and looming political power weave a complex web about him and the mysterious emissaries from Rome.