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ere； at last； is an amusing cure for that temptation。 Until the final episode arrives in bookstores； no one is going to know how The Green Mile turns out 。。。 and that may include me。
Although there was no way he could have known it； Ralph Vicinanza； mentioned the idea of a novel in installments at what was； for me； the perfect psychological moment。 I had been playing with a story idea on a subject I had always suspected I would get around to sooner or later： the electric chair。 〃Old Sparky〃 has fascinated me ever since my first James Cagney movie； and the first Death Row tales I ever read （in a book called Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing； written by Warden Lewis E。 Lawes） fired the darker side of my imagination。 What； I wondered； would it be like to walk those last forty yards to the electric chair； knowing you were going to die there？ Mat； for that matter； would it be like to be the man who had to strap the condemned in 。。。 or pull the switch？ What would such a job take out of you？ Even creepier； what might it add？
I had tried these basic ideas； always tentatively； on a number of different frameworks over the last twenty or thirty years。 I had written one successful novella set in prison （Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption）； and had sort of e to the conclusion that that was probably it for me； when this take on the idea came along。 There were lots of things I liked about it； but nothing more than the narrator's essentially decent voice； low…key； honest；
