but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan...

my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder...

and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped.

Get some rest.

If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.

Beautiful, isn't it?

It took me half a lifetime to invent it.

I'm sure you've discovered...

my deep and abiding interest in pain.

At present, I'm writing the definitive work...

on the subject.

So I want you to be totally honest with me...

on how the Machine makes you feel.

This being our first try, I'll use the lowest setting.

As you know, the concept of the suction pump...

is centuries old.

Well, really, that's all this is.

Except that, instead of sucking water...

I'm sucking life.

I've just sucked one year of your life away.