Journal Entery

Date: October 26, 2007

Entery Number: 23

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 141

I really don't like those quier people. They are so weird. I wonder how many times they got Doctor Gordon's version of electric shock treatment. Doctor Gordon made an appointment for Esther to come to his special hospital and receive electric shock treatment. There was this lounge with people in it who at first glance looked as though they were not moving at all but if you looked closely you could see them make little slow movements. "I made out men and women, and boys and girls who must be as young as I, but there was a uniformity to their faces, as if they had lain for a long time on a shelf, out of the sunlight, under siftings of pale, fine dust. Then I saw that some of the people were indeed moving, but with such small, birdlike gestures I had not at first discerned them." There was an old guy who was counting cards and would start all over once he got to the end. There was a fat lady playing with a string of wooden beads. She would scoot the beads to one end then let them fall to the other side. Then there was this little girl who was looking at sheets of music but when she noticed Esther was watching her, she tore them in half. These people were so weird.