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Updated: May 23, 2025
"But by what damnable right do you have all these books, and time to read 'em, an' all night in to read 'em, an' soak in them, when me brain's on fire, and I'm watch and watch, an' me broken spine won't let me carry half a hundredweight of books about with me?"
Perhaps that was why the sense of companionship between the two, notwithstanding certain obvious disparities, seemed to grow stronger every moment. They drank their coffee and smoked cigarettes afterwards in lazy fashion. Suddenly Martha sprang up. "Say, I came here to work!" she exclaimed. "And I brought you under false pretences," he confessed. "My brain's not working. I can't dictate.
He believes he saved her from a bad life and now he'll think that he's only made things worse. And he's ill his brain's had a shake. Edward dear Edward! let them stay! for my sake, let them stay!" All her soul was in her eyes. She had never been more winning more lovely. She placed her hands on his shoulders as he sat beside her, and leaned her soft cheek against his.
That there was nothing of the mad woman about her, that she had retained reason in such a place, in such a room, with an eating grief to bear, impressed me as one of the marvels of the brain's endurance, with which nature sometimes surprises us. It seemed to me that this might be the hour of partial deliverance to the poor soul who had evidently lived and died so much. "Why have you stayed here?"
Unimportant Details. We can neither regulate the complexity of our environment nor the number of problems which we must settle within a given time. But we can improve the conditions very much by avoiding overconcentration on unimportant details. The brain's best time and energy should be reserved for our own immediate problems; it should not be hampered by details of others.
One of the benefits of illness is, that either from general weakness, or from the brain's being cast into quiescence, habits are broken for a time, and more simple, childlike, and natural modes of thought and feeling, modes more approximate to primary and original modes, come into action, whereby the right thing has a better chance.
It it was just put into my hand when I needed it most. I wasn't sure Old Jerry had brought it, but I knew it came from you, knew it when I didn't know much else!" She was very, very quiet, content merely in his nearness. Even then she didn't understand it the reason for his going that night, weeks before for the papers which had told her a little had told her nothing of his brain's own reason.
I was out of my head once myself typhoid fever 'twas and they say the things I called the doctor was somethin' scandalous. You ain't responsible. You're beat out, and your brain's weak, like the rest of you. Now hold on till I get you a nightgown." He started for the bedroom. The young man seemed a bit troubled. "Just a minute," he observed.
Come in, and let's hear all about it." "Oh, give him time," said another. "Can't you see his brain's busy inventing something new to tell us!" "Inventing, you say!" exclaimed Jimmy, with affected anger. "There's no need to do that! That there bird does tricks nobody would think of."
"I am so sorry, father!" Gladys said, laying her hand on his. "But cheer up! It may not be as bad as you expect. Shall you go and see how he is?" "I think so, my dear! I think so," John Martin replied, "but don't worry me about it now. Talk to your aunt and leave me out of it, I'm a bit upset. My brain's in a regular whirl!"
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