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  1. Dec 2016
    1. There is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the crosslights fade and the low sun shines directly upon it, I can almost fancy radiation after all,—the interminable grotesques seem to form around a common centre and rush off in headlong plunges of equal distraction.

      The way she describes things shows how truly intelligent and curious she is.

    2. Of course I don't when John is here, or anybody else, but when I am alone.

      Shes afraid to show her true emotions to everyone. I suppose her writing helps these emotions come out clearer than it would out loud?

    3. I suppose John never was nervous in his life. He laughs at me so about this wall-paper! At first he meant to repaper the room, but afterwards he said that I was letting it get the better of me, and that nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies. He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on.

      It seems like she cant make her own decisions.