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Carl Solomon S Report From The Asylum
Carl Solomon S Report From The Asylum
Carl Solomon S Report From The Asylum
Upon being strapped into my insulin bed, I would at once break off my usual stream
of puns and hysterical chatter. I would stare at the bulge I made beneath the canvas
restraining sheet, and my body, insulin-packed, would become to me an enormous
concrete pun with infinite levels of association, and thereby a means of surmounting
association with things, much as the verbal puns had surmounted the meaning of
words....
Each coma is utterly incomparable to that of the previous day. Lacking a time-sense
and inhabiting all of these universes at one and the same time, my condition was
one of omnipresence of being everywhere at no time
Invariably, I emerged from the comas bawling like an infant and flapping my arms
crazily (after they had been unfastened), screaming Help!
Task:
1. What three adjectives best describe Carl Solomons experience?
2. What else do you know about this practice of electroshock
therapy? What do you think was the main purpose of the
procedure?