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SDPC Introduction Valerie metaphor grief hospital death

Why do we have jobs at a hospital, when Jane was so afraid of them while she was physical? I interpret our employment there, and her joyful mood, to mean that from where she is now she no longer fears hospitals and the medical establishment — that she’s moved beyond that deep apprehension she began to build up around the age of three, as her mother became gradually, and permanently, incapacitated with rheumatoid arthritis. I think that my own much more pleasant earlier experiences with the hospital in Sayre, including my doing free-lance art work for some of its doctors, helped me place the locale for this adventure there, rather than at the hospital in Elmira, where Jane died. In addition, we lived very happily in Sayre for several years following our marriage.

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 7 camouflage Malba instruments Decatur senses

[...] Actually, they do not parallel the outer senses; and this will sound appalling to you, I’m afraid, simply because there is nothing to be seen, heard or touched in the manner in which you are accustomed. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 9 clock sensation Miss Rob twenty

[...] This was a projection of your inability and should not be taken as any condition of helplessness existing in the inner world, as I am afraid you interpreted the image.

[...] It was unfortunate that it was so uncontrolled, but I’m afraid this can often be expected in the beginning. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 8 breathes Rob dishes Who admit

[...] Two sessions a week were more than sufficient, I thought — I was afraid of going into trance at the drop of a hat.)