This book is titled ‘’Torture: An Eastern Outlook’’ and has been written by ‘’Wú Tuu Hǎi Dīng’’. It is written in Kozakuran.
The book goes on to describe various methods of inflicting tremendous amounts of pain,with the least amount of lethality. The author goes in detail and describes methods such as skinning, sensory deprivation, waterboarding, rectal feeding and rehydration, confinement in a box, dousing in cold water, stress positions, sleep deprivation, restricted diet, etc. The author then goes on to make his own remarks and observations on each of the methods, with one of his favorite seemingly being waterboarding or anything that involves suffocating, as the excerpt shows:
''As described above, waterboarding is a technique where the subject is strapped to a tilted board, with legs above their head and a cloth over their face which covers their nose and mouth. Water is then poured continuously over the cloth, which prevents the subject from breathing. The reaction of the subject is quite interesting. I found waterboarding to always induce panic in the subject. The amount of time I spent pouring water on the cloth varied depending on the individual, but I've found a time of about forty seconds of pouring to be quite effective. This should be repeated multiple times to encourage the subject to speak. When done effectively, the subject believes they are going to die and can get to a point where they lose complete control of their body. It was quite amusing to see this one ''so tough'' man pee himself after only a few repetitions. Regardless, some individuals are more resilient than others. An interesting man, the most resilient man I ever experimented on, tolerated me subjecting him to waterboarding 185 times. This case was quite the exception. From my experience, subjects tend to struggle, attempting to breathe without ever being able to do so, which triggers their innermost fear: the fear of suffocating. As I mentioned before, the fear of suffocating is what I believe to be the one universal fear amongst humans or any humanoid that needs to breathe to live. In my opinion, the panic response, or fear, is induced in some part of the brain which controls primal physiological functions in the body, thus cannot be prevented by the subject. As a general note for any of my experiments, I noticed fear responses to be milder when the subject perceived a threat as controllable rather than uncontrollable. [...]’’