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(“I just hope I can handle it,” Jane said again. Meaning the session. “There’s so much going on in my body at one time it’s hard to handle that too,” she laughed. She referred to the continuing series of changes — improvements — taking place all through her body. At the moment these involve definite extra mobility — and soreness and itching — in her ankles and feet, for example. Right now her arms look longer, straighter. Today she’s been “pretty well out of it,” while trying to help me get through the changes we want to make in the copy-edited Mass Events. She’s helped a great deal here, writing the initial version of certain notes, which I’ll then add to before returning the manuscript to Prentice-Hall for printing.
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(Softly amused:) As a matter of fact — in case you may think sometimes that I am not fully aware of your mores — I did indeed temper many of my remarks in Mass Events on several subjects, so that the book would not be found too objectionable in the context of your times. The implications are there, but your belief systems must be allowed to mellow and change in the light of new knowledge, rather than to be booted aside with an angry foot.
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(We laughed again when we considered that Seth had tempered some of his material for Mass Events. “I’d hate to see it if he hadn’t,” Jane said.
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1. Seth is right, of course. As I well know, I am bothering my stomach, which is perfectly innocent in its own right. I’ve reacted to stress this way before. My stomach has been knotting up because I’m stewing over the reactions of those in charge at Prentice-Hall to Seth’s material in Mass Events about medical matters.
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