The frightening consequences of electroshock therapy
I'm a middle aged government attorney living in a rural section of the northeast U.S. I'm unmarried and come from a very large family. When not preoccupied with family and my job, I read enormous amounts, toy with evolutionary theory, and scratch various parts on my body.
This journal is filled with an enormous number of half-truths and outright lies, including this sentence.
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Two novels - Vonnegut style
I am writing this entry today (which is actually at night) to discuss two books that I read, and to impress people with how witty and smart I am. Impressing people with how witty and smart I am is something that I do in order to gain social acceptance. Social acceptance is very important for animals that are of the type that includes monkeys and primates. I am a member of the species homo sapiens, which is a type of primate, and so social acceptance is important to me.
This is a picture of a chimpanzee, which is another type of primate:
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is an author with many best selling novels including "Cat's Cradle", "Breakfast of Champions", and "Galapagos". I have enjoyed reading a number of Vonnegut's books. Kurt Vonnegut had a son named Mark Vonnegut who became schizophrenic in the early 1970s. The son wrote a book about going insane called "The Eden Express". I have a brother who is schizophrenic. I wrote a journal entry about my brother that you can find here. That entry is the second in a series, so it might be helpful to read the first one, which is located here. Coincidently, the entry just before that one has a little bit about Kurt Vonnegut in it.
Some of Kurt Vonnegut's novels are written in the first person as though they were journal entries. The sentences in the journal entries tend to be very simple and easy to read. There are usually strange diversions off the main topic, and sometimes Vonnegut will interrupt his writing with little illustrations like the one of the chimpanzee above.
When I started reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon, I realized that it and "Zombie" by Joyce Carol Oates, another novel I had read recently, were both written in a first person journal style that copied Vonnegut. With this information, I realized that I had the potential to impress people and gain social acceptance.
Q. P., the main character in Joyce Carol Oates' book, "Zombie" is not looking for social acceptance. He, like Elena Howe in the book "Do with me what you will", also by Joyce Carol Oates, is very quiet and introverted. He, like her, is dependant on the charities of those who love him for his support. Unlike Elena Howe though, Q.P. is a sociopathic serial killer.
Q.P. does not like EYE CONTACT, and he drives a van with an American flag in the back window, and he is the caretaker for a building his father owns, and in the basement he has a room where he tries to turn guys into zombies who will love him by shoving a long pin into their eyes sockets, and it doesn't work, and instead he just has anal sex with their corpses.
This is a pretty interesting book.
In the book, the words EYE CONTACT are always IN CAPITAL LETTERS, and there are hand drawn pictures of the van with the flag, and the caretaker sign, and what it would look like when he shoves the pin in the guys' eyes and severs parts of their brains.
There is some explanation for Q.P. got this way, because he was a faggot and fell in love with his best friend who died, and then his father found out he was a faggot and made him feel ashamed, and he had to hide it from people. But the book isn't really about explanations, it is this middle aged, upper class, white lady trying to get inside the head of a monster, and see what it looks like from in there. I don't know if she got it right, but I could not put this book down until I had finished. even though it was sort of gross at times.
Here's the last line of a review someone gave this book on Amazon:
The main character in "The Curious Incident of Dog in the Night-Time" is pretty strange, but he did not kill Wellington the dog with a fork, or kill anybody really. He will not eat yellow food or brown food, and if he sees four yellow cars when he is on the bus he will have a bad day, and if he is upset he will crouch on the ground and make a noise like "Nah. Nah. Nah.", and if anyone touches him when he does not want to be touched he will hit them and hit them and hit them. This is called "autistic".
The name of this guy is "Christopher Boone". He is fifteen, and he lives in England. He lives with his dad, with no mom because she is gone. There was a dog next door named Wellington that Christopher liked, but it is gone because someone killed it by stabbing it with a garden fork. This makes Christopher upset, so he crouches on the ground and makes a noise like "Nah. Nah. Nah." Then a policeman comes along and touches Christopher, so Christopher hits him, and he gets arrested, but his father comes along and gets him out, and the police don't press charges.
Christopher Boone is really, really smart in math. At one point this guy asks him, "What is 251 times 864?" and Christopher answers, "216,864". He writes "Because it was a really easy sum because you just multiply 864 X 1000, which is 864,000. Then you divide it by 4, which is 216,000, and that's 250 X 864. Then you just add another 864 onto it to get 251 X 864. And that's 216,864." Christopher is good with math in lots of other ways besides multiplying too.
My father can add two three digit numbers just about that quickly. You can give him the numbers and then he will repeat them back to you to make sure he has them right, and then he will give you the answer. He said the secret was that while he was saying the numbers back to you, he was also adding them in his head, which really didn't explain the secret to me. My father worked in a factory for about thirty years.
Christopher Boone's father is a house painter, but Christopher wants to go to college and be a professor, and then become an astronaut. But first he wants to figure out who killed this dog Wellington, and so in the book that's what he does. There are pictures in the book of math puzzles that help him to solve the mystery. Eventually, he does solve the mystery, and some other stuff happens, and it is pretty good. Christopher has a really nice teacher named "Siobhan", which I think is a pretty cool name.
I drew this picture myself. It means stop.
This is a picture of a chimpanzee, which is another type of primate:
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is an author with many best selling novels including "Cat's Cradle", "Breakfast of Champions", and "Galapagos". I have enjoyed reading a number of Vonnegut's books. Kurt Vonnegut had a son named Mark Vonnegut who became schizophrenic in the early 1970s. The son wrote a book about going insane called "The Eden Express". I have a brother who is schizophrenic. I wrote a journal entry about my brother that you can find here. That entry is the second in a series, so it might be helpful to read the first one, which is located here. Coincidently, the entry just before that one has a little bit about Kurt Vonnegut in it.
Some of Kurt Vonnegut's novels are written in the first person as though they were journal entries. The sentences in the journal entries tend to be very simple and easy to read. There are usually strange diversions off the main topic, and sometimes Vonnegut will interrupt his writing with little illustrations like the one of the chimpanzee above.
When I started reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon, I realized that it and "Zombie" by Joyce Carol Oates, another novel I had read recently, were both written in a first person journal style that copied Vonnegut. With this information, I realized that I had the potential to impress people and gain social acceptance.
Q. P., the main character in Joyce Carol Oates' book, "Zombie" is not looking for social acceptance. He, like Elena Howe in the book "Do with me what you will", also by Joyce Carol Oates, is very quiet and introverted. He, like her, is dependant on the charities of those who love him for his support. Unlike Elena Howe though, Q.P. is a sociopathic serial killer.
Q.P. does not like EYE CONTACT, and he drives a van with an American flag in the back window, and he is the caretaker for a building his father owns, and in the basement he has a room where he tries to turn guys into zombies who will love him by shoving a long pin into their eyes sockets, and it doesn't work, and instead he just has anal sex with their corpses.
This is a pretty interesting book.
In the book, the words EYE CONTACT are always IN CAPITAL LETTERS, and there are hand drawn pictures of the van with the flag, and the caretaker sign, and what it would look like when he shoves the pin in the guys' eyes and severs parts of their brains.
There is some explanation for Q.P. got this way, because he was a faggot and fell in love with his best friend who died, and then his father found out he was a faggot and made him feel ashamed, and he had to hide it from people. But the book isn't really about explanations, it is this middle aged, upper class, white lady trying to get inside the head of a monster, and see what it looks like from in there. I don't know if she got it right, but I could not put this book down until I had finished. even though it was sort of gross at times.
Here's the last line of a review someone gave this book on Amazon:
Ultimately, I give the book a 4 -- daringly written, but I would have preferred if Q.P. was not homosexual,or at least some lines about him getting a sudden...u know...while looking at some young female(not young girl!!) or at least had some female victims. L. Brinkley "Lestat Lover" (Chesapeake, VA).The background description for L. Brinkley of Chesapeake, VA also indicates that she "like hot guys" and vampires, and spends too much money on CDs.
The main character in "The Curious Incident of Dog in the Night-Time" is pretty strange, but he did not kill Wellington the dog with a fork, or kill anybody really. He will not eat yellow food or brown food, and if he sees four yellow cars when he is on the bus he will have a bad day, and if he is upset he will crouch on the ground and make a noise like "Nah. Nah. Nah.", and if anyone touches him when he does not want to be touched he will hit them and hit them and hit them. This is called "autistic".
The name of this guy is "Christopher Boone". He is fifteen, and he lives in England. He lives with his dad, with no mom because she is gone. There was a dog next door named Wellington that Christopher liked, but it is gone because someone killed it by stabbing it with a garden fork. This makes Christopher upset, so he crouches on the ground and makes a noise like "Nah. Nah. Nah." Then a policeman comes along and touches Christopher, so Christopher hits him, and he gets arrested, but his father comes along and gets him out, and the police don't press charges.
Christopher Boone is really, really smart in math. At one point this guy asks him, "What is 251 times 864?" and Christopher answers, "216,864". He writes "Because it was a really easy sum because you just multiply 864 X 1000, which is 864,000. Then you divide it by 4, which is 216,000, and that's 250 X 864. Then you just add another 864 onto it to get 251 X 864. And that's 216,864." Christopher is good with math in lots of other ways besides multiplying too.
My father can add two three digit numbers just about that quickly. You can give him the numbers and then he will repeat them back to you to make sure he has them right, and then he will give you the answer. He said the secret was that while he was saying the numbers back to you, he was also adding them in his head, which really didn't explain the secret to me. My father worked in a factory for about thirty years.
Christopher Boone's father is a house painter, but Christopher wants to go to college and be a professor, and then become an astronaut. But first he wants to figure out who killed this dog Wellington, and so in the book that's what he does. There are pictures in the book of math puzzles that help him to solve the mystery. Eventually, he does solve the mystery, and some other stuff happens, and it is pretty good. Christopher has a really nice teacher named "Siobhan", which I think is a pretty cool name.
I drew this picture myself. It means stop.
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