Why are you still so damned protective of me?:
“You have to ask?”
“I do.”
Mick came closer still, until his face hung an inch from mine. “If you have to ask, then you wouldn’t believe my answer.” He drew away and continued wiping my hands.
I pulled the phone toward me and punched in the number of the sheriff's office in Flat Mesa. The deputy at the desk put me straight through. The phone made a couple of clicks, and then the sheriff's voice sounded in my ear.
"Jones," he said. Dark, biting, laconic.
"Hey, Nash. It's Janet."
There was a long silence.
"Fuck," Nash Jones said clearly, and he hung up on me.
Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.
Diana Wynne JonesTags: janet
Am I your special someone? Or just someone special?"
--Janet
Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria in his landmark work The Major Symptoms of Hysteria. His catalogue of symptoms was staggering, and included somnambulism (not sleepwalking as we think of it today, but a sort of amnesiac condition in which the patient functioned in a trance state, or "second state," and later remembered nothing); trances or fits of sleep that could last for days, and in which the patient sometimes appeared to be dead; contractures or other disturbances in the motor functions of the limbs; paralysis of various parts of the body; unexplained loss of the use of a sense such as sight or hearing; loss of speech; and disruptions in eating that could entail eventual refusal of food altogether. Janet's profile was sufficiently descriptive of Mollie Fancher that he mentioned her by name as someone who "seems to have had all possible hysterical accidents and attacks." In the face of such strange and often intractable "attacks," many doctors who treated cases of hysteria in the 1800s developed an ill-concealed exasperation.
Michelle StaceyTags: religion faith miracle psychology spirituality eating-disorder anorexia amnesia spiritualism starvation mental-health mental-illness psychological paralysis fasting dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder trance janet sleepwalking anorexic mpd conversion-disorder fancher mollie-fancher pierre-janet victoria-medecine
This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives.
Janet FitchTags: quote white astrid janet fitch oleander
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