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Updated: May 2, 2025
"This isn't punishment, but torture." "What are your symptoms?" "I see things; my case has no comparison with others. To a man of my super-sensitiveness close confinement is mere cruelty." I made a short examination. He was restless under my hands. "You'll stay where you are", I said. He broke out into violent abuse, and I left him. Later in the day I visited him again.
I do not say that there may not be a decadent side in Wagner, revealing super-sensitiveness or even hysteria and other modern nervous affections. And if this side was lacking he would not be representative of his time, and that is what every great artist ought to be.
I went back to Versailles after luncheon, having had to see the specialist about my eye, he thinks the socket is so marvelously healed lately, that I could have the glass one in now much sooner than Christmas. I wonder if some self confidence will return when I can feel people are not revolted when looking at me? That again is super-sensitiveness.
At one moment he was dismissing the idea of such delicateness, such super-refined super-sensitiveness being taken with a man of his imperfect bringing-up and humble origin.
It had been hard on the home party to have the summer holidays clouded by the presence of a mourner who shuddered at the sight of water, collapsed into tears at unexpected moments, and lived in a condition of super-sensitiveness, ready as it seemed to be hurt by the most innocent word; yet how gentle and patient they had been, every single one of them, down to Tim himself!
Looking back over the six weeks just behind him, Ford could not remember a single incident a sentence, even that had been unpleasant, unless he clung to his belief in Dick's contempt, and that he had since set down to his own super-sensitiveness. And yet "He's got bad eyes," he concluded.
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