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(3:05. Jane began to read yesterday’s session—and did very well indeed, even better than she’d done yesterday and the day before that. She read right along, smoothly and seemingly with little effort. Actually, I was amazed. I doubt if I could have read aloud any faster. “I’m doing my best yet,” she said, surprised and pleased. Indeed she was. I told her her reading was easily the best she’s done since coming into the hospital—and even before, at the house, though she questioned the house part of my enthusiastic statement. But she did well indeed.
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(3:36. Suddenly Jane began to rotate her right arm in concert with lifting her head and neck off the bod—seemingly as fast as could be done. Once again she gave me the feeling that she—her body—was practicing control and coordination. This was all a good workout in itself. She made strange grunting sounds with her efforts, and almost violent motions.
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(4:10. After her cigarette Jane began to groan and writhe on the bed, her head, torso, legs and feet all moving. Even her eye muscles moved, she said. The performance didn’t last long, but she seemed to expend a lot of effort in the motions. “What the hell was I doing?” she asked, surprised.
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