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rhabakoli · 5 years

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Infinite White - 9

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He stood in front of the mirror, pulling at his shirt, feeling ridiculous and not comfortable at all. “Are you okay?” Ragnar jumped, heart tripling its efforts. “Can you knock?” Aslaug stood behind him, arms crossed and looked him up and down. Bear sat to her feet, big, pink tongue lolling out of his mouth. She was wearing a gorgeous green knit-sweater. He didn’t get it. “How do you women always look so effortlessly flawless?” “Because we are.” She came closer and picked a hair from his shoulder. “What has you all worried?”

“I’m not worried.” He didn’t have to look at her to know the face she was making. “You’re standing in front of the mirror, apparently going through your whole closet, for a family dinner? There’s something going on.” She gestured towards his bed, covered in shirts and sweaters and dress shirts he’d have to iron once again. “There’s not.” “Oh.” Aslaug grinned, mischievous smirk on her face. “Fenja’s coming?” “Yeah, but what does that have to do with anything?” Ragnar knew she wouldn’t buy it. He still tried the path of denial. “Don’t play dumb, it doesn’t suit you.” She turned, shoved at his clothes to make some place for herself on his bed. “So, is it a crush, a squish, do you want to marry her and raise a bunch of cats?” “What the hell is a squish?” “A platonic crush. Like, you want to be friends really bad, etcetera.” Ragnar made an understanding sound and grabbed a dark grey long sleeve. “You’re going to wear that, it looks nice.” His sisters tone didn’t allow for objection. Bear barked at him, tail wagging wildly. Ragnar looked between them and shrugged. “If you say so.”

Fenja stood before her closet, hands on her hips and deep frown on her face. Maeve was watching her from her bed, concerned about the unmoving state of her friend. “Are you okay?” “No. What do I wear? “ “What’s the plan?” Maeve knew that Gala was Ragnars aunt, and she knew that she wanted to meet her friend. She hasn’t been at the lecture, but the breathless, borderline hysteric phone call was telling enough. “Family dinner.” “Oh wow. Sounds… a lot?” Fenja waved a hand through the air, a dismissive motion. “Nah, they are cool. It’s just… I’ve met Bree, and she’s awesome. But not Gala. And I am nervous. I mean, Gala Ragnarsson, for fucks sake!” “She’ll will love you. I mean, they basically adopted you already, didn’t they?” “Bjorn welcomed me to the family, if that’s what you mean.” Maeve grinned, and shook her head slightly. “Totally. That’s totally what I mean. Also, just call Ragnar, he’ll help, I’m sure.”

Ragnar’s phone rang, sending him into a frenzy. It was buried somewhere under his pillows, and he threw them off the bed in rapid succession, to get to it. “Fenja, if you call to cancel, we have a problem.” “Not cancelling, still having a problem.” “Why, what’s up?” “I don’t know what to wear.” He stopped pacing, thinking he misheard. “What?” “I don’t know, should I wear something fancy, is it going to be more casual?” “Fenja-” “I slept through the last friday night dinner, I’d be the last one to know about any dress codes.” “Fenja-” “Also, your aunt? I don’t want her first impression to be that I am a slob. Or a wannabe rich trust fund kid that wears a robe for a casual dinner with family.” “Fenja-” “Granted, not my family, but whatever. Same principle:” She was unstoppable. She was ranting, going on about her dress choices, what felt okay, and what felt over the top to her. “Will there be any red sauce?” “I don’t know, I don’t think so. Why?” “I’ll not wear any white or light colors then.” Ragnar just sat, elbows on his knees and listened, answering questions on the odd occasions she let him speak. “I’m coming to pick you up, alright? I’ll be there in half an hour.” “Don't expect me to be dressed by then.”

Maeve snorted at her roomies words. “Poor fool will imagine you in your underwear.” “Oh shut up, he won't.”

True to her words, she wasn't dressed, when he arrived. Their portier let him up, and Maeve opened the door for him. “Hi, giant. How's life?” “Exciting, thank you. And you?” “Oh, lot's of brain and body exertion. But I've got just one exam left. I'm almost free.” Ragnar laughed at her little happy dance and looked around the dorm room. “Where's Fenja?” “Taking a shower.” Maeve sat down cross-legged on her bed and gestured Ragnar to do the same. He did, leaning back against the wall, left hand rubbing over his knee as he took in Fenja’s side of the room. Her desk was laden with papers, her laptop, pens strewn everywhere. The shelf above her desk was almost giving out with the amount of books resting there. They were everywhere. Under her bed, on her closet, she even used a tower of them as nightstand. “You'll need to get a bigger room, if she continues buying books.” Maeve chuckled, sorting through the papers in her lap. “No kidding. I have to thank you for letting her go wild in your library, by the way. Keeps her from buying.” “My pleasure. That way I can at at least try and feed her healthy meals.” She looked up, amused. “You noticed, eh?” He nodded. “She polishes off a family bag of nachos like it's a light snack.” “Oh, you haven't seen her chips eating habits yet.” At his questioning expression, she grinned. “Cream cheese and vinegar chips.” “I'm friends with a monster.” “I feel like I should have warned you, but you seemed quite stubborn when you were chasing after Fenja, so I didn't.” “I didn't chase after Fenja?” His tone was so adorably confused, she almost believed him. “Sure you didn't.” Then she threw her papers at him. “Test me, I need to know this in my sleep.”

Fenja barged in, door banging against the wall, her hands in her unruly hair, trying to tame it as she's holding her towel in her mouth, a crazed look in her eyes. When she found her friends on Maeves bed, she froze. “Hi?” Ragnar wriggled his fingers at her and continued to question Maeve about different, commonly occuring sport injuries and their causes and treatments. Fenja gave up on her hair, took the towel out her mouth and threw it on her bed. “What you doing?” “He's testing my knowledge for this godforsaken exam I have.” Maeve pointed at her, eyes all squinty, accusing tone in her voice: “How dare you keep such an amazing study buddy for yourself?” Fenja frowned. “I did ask you multiple times to join us-” “I feel betrayed!” “It was your own choice!” “You TRAITOR!”, She screeched, at the top of her lungs. Fenja rolled her eyes and gave up. Instead she turned her attention to Ragnar, who was looking comically big on their tiny dorm beds, and who had a weird mix of amusement and desperation on his face. “This okay?” He blinked a couple times, clueless, like a little racoon dropping its cotton candy into a puddle. When he didn't answer, Fenja repeated her question, while waving her hand up and down in front of her body. She was wearing jeans, a thin, knitted sweater, oxfords. “Oh, uh, yeah, great.” He cleared his throat, smiled at her. “Okay then. Let’s go.” She took her bag, and went out the door, calling back to Maeve. “Bye, idiot!”

“Hey, Mum.” Queenie looked up, at her youngest standing in the kitchen. “Hey, Sweetie. Everything alright?” “Yeah, they’re here.” She rolled her eyes. “They are so disgustingly cute, I swear I’m gonna barf. And they don’t even have a clue.” Ingrids mother laughed at her daughters exasperated tone. “How’s Ginger, by the way?” Instantly, Ingrid became pouty and defiant. “That’s completely different.” “Is it?” “Yes. She’s my actual girlfriend, mom.” Ingrid raised her chin, giving her mother a playful stinky eye. “And she’s fine. Her internship is going great and she misses me.” “I’m sure. Now take the salads and put them on the table, please.”

Dinner was going great. They were all here, Bear was snoozing under the table and warming their feet, their bellies were full and Ragnar even considered opening a button. He shouldn’t have eaten that second bowl of potato salad, he’d known it. Next to him was Fenja, deeply immersed in a conversation with his aunt, who willingly answered all her questions and then proceeded to squeeze all her favourite books and authors out of his friend. Not that she was troubled by it, quite the opposite. He was fairly sure the two of them would vanish into the library at some point that evening. A hand touched his shoulder, and he turned to his right, towards Aslaug. “You gonna tell her?” “What?” “That you’re in puppy love with her?” Ragnar tensed. Aslaug should be very happy about her superior whispering abilities, otherwise she’d be dead meat. “What are you talking about?” “Oh, again?” She flicked his ear. “Just do it, oh god.” “No. And I won’t talk about this anymore.”

Their mother rose, hand clutched in her husbands, and asked for attention. “Seeing, as all the people we love and cherish are here tonight, we don’t want to wait any longer with this. Also, the cake needs another minute.” Forgotten was Ragnars crush. This sounded important and probably life changing. Ivar smiled sweetly up at his wife, kissing her hand and pressing the back of it against his cheek, in silent support. Fenja shrinked in her seat, feeling overwhelmed and out of place by Queenies words, but Ragnar wasn’t having it. He seeked out her hand and intertwined their fingers, stroking over the back of her hand, winking at her. “This hasn’t been planned, we’d not have waited 15 years if it was.” Fenjas eyebrows shot up, a suspicion already forming. Queenie stole a last look at her husband, then looked at her family. “I am pregnant.” It was silent. Dead silent. And then, suddenly, Bjorn started laughing, booming and happy. Queenie couldn’t even react, before he had her in a hug, raised off the floor and pressed against his chest. After that, all hell broke loose. The children collectively lost their minds. Ragnar and Aslaug had dark flashbacks, Ingrid was mostly grimassing because ‘oh my god, my parents had sex.’

Questions were thrown around, and Queenie just laughed, while Ivar hissed at his brothers not to be so rough with her. “How far along are you?” Bree hugged her best friend, kissed her cheek. “3 months. I didn’t want to tell you too soon, in case something happens.” “Oh, I am sure you’ll be fine. Ivar slapped Ubbe, probably because he asked an inappropriate question. Fenja would never get that creepy face he’d made out of her head. Good thing he wasn’t her professor at school. It all was very familiar and cozy, the atmosphere high strung with anticipation and happiness. Ragnar looked around. His sisters were already picking out baby shower decoration, his aunts were in it as well, his uncles were teasing the future parents. Fenja was next to them, getting roped into a hug by his mom - he hadn’t even noticed her going over -, and then leaving the room. She was all smiley and happy towards his parents, but as soon as no one could see her face, it got all clouded and dark.

Concerned, he followed her out, catching her out in the foyer. He stopped her with a hand on her elbow, pulling her gently to a halt. “You okay there?” “Yes.” She didn’t look up at him, angled her face down, keeping him from seeing the truth. Or so she thought. “Mhm.” He was sceptical. “I don’t appreciate being lied to.” She just shrugged, so he took matters into his own hands and guided her into his room. Maybe she’d say more behind closed doors. “What’s up?” “Nothing.” She was standing there, right in his room, hugging herself and looking… scared. “Fenja, please. I can see that something is wrong.” He sat on his bed, leaning forward and touching her arm. “This evening is not about me, please, can we not do this right now?” She swallowed, voice breaking. Ragnar sighed. Stubborn girl. “Sure thing, princess.” So he got up again, hand not leaving her arm. “Need a hug?”

An hour after receiving the news and cake, Ingrid whipped out Cards Against Humanity, since most of them refused to play UNO. Not when there was still cake around. Ragnar felt the strong need to give some money and his help to charities, and Bree even went so far as to get up, go over to the window ‘looking for a shred of humanity’. It was brutal. Fenja and Gala were off to the side sitting sideways and turned towards each other on the couch, with Hvitserk leaning on Gala’s back like the big manchild he was. They seemed to enjoy themselves, the dark look on his friends face was gone for now. He wondered what brought that mood swing on. After Bree had laid down a particularly vile card, Ragnar decided to step away and instead joined the unofficial book club on the couch. “How’s it going?” “I offered her an internship with the YWA.”, said Gala. Ragnar almost choked on air, definitely not having expected that. “What?” “In case she doesn’t get accepted as a writer. It’s good to have options.” She patted Fenjas hand. “There’ll still be a whole process, but I can open some doors.” Fenja was speechless, barely managed to nod. Gala just smiled brightly. “Thought so. And now please excuse us, I think it’s past his bedtime.” Hvitserk whined in protest, absolutely, completely proving his wife’s point.

Part 10

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purplecloaks · 6 years

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Custom Made, Part Fifty-Eight

Bjorn x OC, Ubbe x OC, Hvitserk x OC, Ivar x OC

Everything tag: @squirrelacorngliterfarts @kawennote09

Custom made tag: @kingbouji3 @maybe-a-winchester @sdcyumyum

I follow Ivar to the boats, walking a little further behind than usual. I haven’t let him touch me.

“It’s time!” Ivar says. He sits on the edge of the boat. “How I’ve been impatient. Now I can finally fulfill my promise to the gods and kill Lagertha.”

Hvitserk pulls him into the ship. He then helps me in. I sit as far away from Ivar as possible.

“I’m ready to avenge our mother. Not because she was a good mother to me, but because Lagertha deserves it.” Hvitserk says.

“That’s good enough to me. But are you ready to deal with Ubbe? Will you kill him if you have to, even if he is your own flesh and blood?” Ivar says.

“If I kill Ubbe, won’t my face be assured?” Hvitserk asks. He walks away.

Ivar laughs. “That’s the way to talk!”

Hvitserk bends down to my height. “How are you?”

I shrug.

“Do you need anything?” He asks.

“Just stay close please.” I say.

“Of course.” He says.

I look over at Ivar. He’s talking to Bishop Heahmund. He hands him a sword. I close my eyes and lean back, wishing this were over.

“My love.” Ivar calls out when we’re at sea.

“Please don’t call me that.” I say.

“Why not? You are my wife, are you not?” He says.

“I don’t know, am I?” I ask.

“What does that mean?” Ivar asks.

“Do husbands take their wives against their wills?” I hiss.

He glares at me but says nothing.

Even though I am mad at him, I sit in his chariot when we are on the battle field. It makes my skin crawl to be this close to him. He tries to touch my face, but I swat him away. He looks hurt.

Ivar sends Hvitserk and Harald out to talk to Bjorn and Halfdan. When Harald comes back he has Halfdan with him as a hostage.

Back at camp I sit next to Astrid.

“This is madness.” Halfdan says.

“Is it? You are here where you belong. Don’t deny it. Why would you fight for Lagertha or Bjorn? They are not your folk.” Harald says.

“Bjorn saved my life. Isn’t that reason enough?” Halfdan says.

“Not really. We all choose to live a dangerous life. That is part of our way. So I think that you give what happened between you and Bjorn too much importance.” Ivar says.

“Family has a greater claim. I don’t want to fight against you. I don’t want to have to kill you. The world would make no sense.” Harald says.

“I suppose none of this makes any sense to him anyway.” Halfdan says.

“He’s a great warrior. He doesn’t need anything to make sense.” Ivar says.

“By the gods, Ivar, you are just so cynical.” Halfdan says.

Ivar chuckles.

“You just don’t care, do you?” Halfdan asks.

“I care about winning this war. Halfdan you have to choose between a friend or a brother. To me, the answer is obvious.” Ivar says. He pours his cup of ale out and crawls away. I don’t follow.

“The Lord hath said unto me, thou art my son; this day I have begotten you. Appeal to me and I shall grant nations into your own inheritance, and I shall extend your authority over the borders of nations. And I will make you control them with an iron rod, and you might break them as easily as the potter can break a pot.” Heahmund says then he follows Ivar.

I roll my eyes.

“You are a part of my fate. As I am a part of yours. Stay.” Harald says to Halfdan.

At the meeting I sit beside Ivar.

“We all know today we have so many shield maidens and warriors at arms that we must decide whether we fight or we reach an accommodation allowing us to go live our lives with integrity and honor.” Bjorn says. “I call upon my brothers, Ivar…Hvitserk. Let’s put aside our differences, for the sake of our father. A civil war can only bring tragedy, weaken our family, and set in train a lifetime of revenge obligations for those who manage to survive! Is that really what you all want?”

“I want to speak up and support Bjorn, and his call for a peaceful resolution. It is true I set my face against my brother. But if you can forgive me, Ivar, let us make an accord.” Ubbe says.

“We are going to war for the Kingdom of Kattegat. The Kingdom of Kattegat was carved out by my husband Ragnar Lothbrok, and then by me. I am its rightful Queen. What we should be discussing is how we combine our great armies, and direct them out towards new lands, new conquests, new opportunities. What a terrible pity to kill our young men for a piece of land which is already ours.” Lagertha says. “Astrid! I am happy to see you again. Whatever has happened, I don’t want to fight you. Astrid!”

“I am married now. I am King Harald’s wife.” Astrid says.

“Queen Astrid, I suppose.” Lagertha says.

“Brother, let’s not fight. What can we gain? Nothing.” Halfdan says.

“On the contrary. We will gain the world. Join us and I will share it with you.” Harald says.

“It is really up to you, Ivar. If you decide that you cannot fight against your brothers, that you do not want to fight against your brothers, then we can find an accord. And King Harald can’t stop us.” Bjorn says.

“You have so much to lose, Ivar. If you want war, then let’s have war. But win or lose, you lose. You gain victory over the other sons of Ragnar and people will say that you are an illegitimate ruler and usurper. And if you lose, they will say it was by the will of the gods and the will of Ragnar, who now sups with them in Valhalla, and cries for us now.” Lagertha says.

“Do not do this Ivar. We are the sons of Ragnar. Is that not enough for any man?” Ubbe says.

Ivar is quiet for a while. Then he stands.

“Bring horns of mead. We should celebrate. There will be no battle today. Nor tomorrow.” Ivar finally says.

“What are you talking about? You cannot decide this!” Harald says as he stands.

“I do not want to fight against my brothers. I still hate myself for killing Sigurd. This would be ten times worse. And I know my wife does not wish for me to fight against Lagertha, who she loves. I can’t.” Ivar says. “I renounce my promise to kill Lagertha. She can have Kattegat. I don’t want it.” He walks over to Ubbe. “Ubbe, you’re right. We are all sons of Ragnar. Forgive me.”

I have a bad feeling about this. I don’t believe him for a minute. I get a cup of mead when it is passed around but I don’t drink it yet.

“Skol!” Lagertha says.

“Skol!” Everyone else says.

Harald pours his mead on the ground.

Ivar smiles and then throws his mead in Ubbe’s face. “How blue are my eyes, huh?”

“What?” Ubbe asks.

“How blue are my eyes?” Ivar shouts.

“You’re eyes are very blue.” Ubbe says.

“Mmm. You remember I had to ask you every single morning how blue the whites of my eyes were? Because if they were very blue, I was in great danger of breaking a bone.” Ivar says.

“Yes I remember. It was a big part of my childhood, ‘how blue are Ivar’s eyes today?’” Ubbe says.

“I might break a bone, but I can never break a promise. I can never forgive Lagertha for murdering our mother. How can you? Hmm? How can you?! Hmm? Our mother! Of course I’m going to kill her!” Ivar says.

“You can try.” Lagertha says.

“Oh, I will.” Ivar says.

“You said you wouldn’t fight your brothers.” Ubbe says.

“You are no longer my brother. You were once my legs but not anymore.” Ivar says.

Harald starts laughing.

I throw my cup on the ground.

“This was all a waste of time.” Ubbe says.

“No. Not at all. You can surrender Kattegat now. You’ve all been talking about how terrible the slaughter will be. How we will kill our nearest relations and member of our family. Da da. I don’t want to do that. Let us not do it. You. Bjorn. Lagertha. Just go away. Leave this place. Do not put your men to the test.” Ivar says.

Bjorn and Ubbe draw their swords. Then everyone draws their swords. My heart stutters. The men holding flags around us point them at the opposing side. Lagertha stops Ubbe from getting any closer to us.

“Not now.” She says.

Ivar turns and walks away. “Ingrid come on.” He shouts over his shoulder.

I hesitate. I don’t want to be anywhere near Ivar. I vaguely notice that Harald and Halfdan are having a conversation.

“Ingrid!” Ivar yells.

Lagertha is staring at me, almost as if she can read my mind.

And then I run towards her. I almost fall into her arms.

“Save me.” I gasp out.

“What’s going on?” She asks.

“Keep Ivar away from me, please. I beg of you.” I say. I turn back to look at him. His eyes are wide, and I can almost see the anger shimmering around him.

“Get her!” He yells.

Lagertha pushes me behind her. “She’s with us now!”

“She’s my wife!” He yells.

“Go.” She whispers to me. I run from her arms into Ubbe’s. He kisses my forehead. Lagertha starts backing away.

“Ingrid!” Ivar yells out.

“She doesn’t want to be with you.” Lagertha says.

“Come on. We can’t be here all day.” Hvitserk says and pulls on Ivar’s shoulder.

Ivar starts to leave, but I know this won’t be the end of this. He will hunt me forever.

When we get back to Lagertha’s camp, Ubbe sits me down and tries to calm me down. Lagertha, Bjorn, Torvi, and Halfdan join us.

“Why did you leave?” Bjorn asks. “Are you sent here to spy?”

I shake my head quickly as Lagertha says “There was too much fear in her voice. Something is going on, Bjorn.” She bends down to my height. “What happened?”

“Ivar raped me.” I say quietly. Lagertha immediately takes me in her arms and holds me. I let out a sob.

“Why would he do that?” Ubbe asks. His eyes are wide and wild.

“He found out I was using herbs to prevent a pregnancy and got upset.” I sob.

“So you might be with child?” Bjorn asks.

“It’s possible.” I say.

Torvi bends down and tries to comfort me as well. “We won’t let him hurt you anymore.”

“You are safe here.” Lagertha says. She wipes the tears away from my eyes and kisses my cheeks.

I stay back at camp during the fighting. I pray to the gods that no one I care about will die. That’s all I do while they’re away. Pray and cry.

#vikings #vikings x oc #Bjorn Ironside #bjorn x oc #ubbe #ubbe x oc #Hvitserk #hvitserk x oc #ivar the boneless #ivar x oc #Lagertha #Lagertha x oc

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libratvulizardheadcanonstrove · 2 years

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FE 16 Playthrough: Part 5:

In-Game Dates: 4/22, 4/23, 4/26

Great Tree Moon, and a lot of talky stuff that I cannot pause. Huh, Adrestia is in the south. And I guess the the monastery is in its own like little independent state?

But we’re here! At the actual game location! I do kinda feel for Jeralt here tho. Twenty years of evading with his kid just to be brought back by pure bad luck. And I do wonder how much of what Rhea and Jeralt say is just for the sake of appearances (Byleth existence, the mom dying, etc). The fucking monastery theme is a big whiplash tho. Yeah, Jeralt’s worst fears are happening - doo-do-doo-da-da-doo. Jeez man. Also wait. They don’t want the Ashen Demon merc to be in their army, but to teach?? It is a little like “Wouldn’t the way more experienced Jeralt be the better teacher?? He technically taught Alois (and Leonie) so there’s already teaching exp??” However, it might have something to do with Jeralt and his “defiance” being too much of a liability for teaching the students. A blank slate though? Yeah, they won’t put anything to question the Church in their heads. OMG, Alois is the one who recced us for teaching?

When we cut to Seteth and Rhea talking in private, my first instinct to him saying we’re a child is “Ugh, game, we’re twenty-one! You literally tell us this later! We’re not some peer to these actual teens!” Then I thought “Wait, he’s old as hell and has to constantly manage everyone else’s shit”. So, I’ll let it slide this time game. And I guess the “suspicious individual” they’re talking about is the Flame Emperor?

FINALLY I CAN START TO RUN AROUND!! My first quest is to talk to the three leaders, but I’m encouraged to talk to all of the students. I run into E first. Decided against grilling her too much this playthrough. I ran into the Deer kids first and they’re so cute! NOT CLAUDE SHADING THE OTHER HOUSES FOR THEIR MESS! Claude, look... you’re right, but you shouldn’t say it.

I decide to see the Eagle kids as well so I’ll preemptively miss them. And I’m probably looking too deep into this, but when Ferdinand says the “legitimate” son of the Aegir family, could that imply illegitimate sons? God Hubert can’t help talking like a vampire huh? Okay gonna talk to my kids-oh sonuvabitch, does Sylvain really have to be the first to see?? Well, this my first Guy!leth playthrough, so maybe he can be a bit more tolerable. Damn, Felix really is on sight huh? Just like a real autistic person in RPGs!

I talk to Dimitri and he says “I bet I can benefit greatly from your guidance!”. Like, yeah man, you have no idea how much the plot is gonna make you rely on me and my guidance to the detriment of your own agency. I am gonna grill him on the Lions.

Ingrid: They literally go “Ingrid has no weaknesses as a unit”, yeah, okay game. But okay, her strengths are Swords, Lances, Riding and Flight. Decent on-set stats, but lowest is Defense. And her Personal Skill gives her boosts with Gambits.

Annette: you know, this is the first time I’m actually looking at her Personal Skill. She can automatically use Rally to give +4 Strength to someone. I guess I should try to pair her with a martial unit. Strengths are Axes, Reason and Authority, while her weaknesses at the start are Bows and Armor. Much more obvi mage stats.

Mercedes: absolute white mage with that Personal Skill. A two-for-one heal! And huh, she’s got a lotta weaknesses. Swords, Spears, Axes and Armor. While her two strengths are Reason and Faith. Keep an eye on her Luck and defense.

Sylvain: Right his Personal Skill is about being a fuckboi. Actually, that might be mean to fuckbois, my bad fuckbois. But yeah, it also means he does a smidge better in combat when next to a girl. Strengths are Lances, Axes and Riding. Only weakness is Bows. HOLY SHIT HIS RESISTANCE IS 2!

Ashe: our little lockpick boi. His only two strengths are Axes and Bows. And his only weakness is Reason. Decent stats.

Felix: the “don’t give him Battalions” unit. Strengths are Swords, Bows and Fists. Really suggesting an Assassin endgame. Weaknesses are Reason and Authority. God, his Strength is high and his Res is low.

Dedue: His Personal Skill suggests he’s a good guard for skinny entrances. Wow, he’s gotta lotta strengths. Lances, Axes, Fists and Armor. While his weaknesses are Faith, Riding and Flying. HOLY DAMN HIS STRENGTH IS HIGH, AND HIS RES IS 1!

Dimitri: Strengths are Swords, Lances and Authority. Weaknesses are Axes and Reason. I was about to freak out that his strength is higher than Dedue’s, but I remembered I got him leveled up lol. Keep an eye on that Res.

I go back to Rhea and the staff to pick my house. Seteth is making it known that he doesn’t trust me (fair, it’s called good taste). Hi Flayn. Right there’s the mock battle coming up. I go to talk to the kids (and manchild Sylvain). Ugh, the grossness with the teacher aspect begins, where literally the only option is to tell the kids to treat me like a friend. Not really bad now on its own, but with later shit... Dimitri says that we’re not in the kingdom, maybe pointing to me being onto something earlier? Wow, Mercie is self-aware that’s she’s the White Mage. And how dare you make Sylvain have kind of a point about only bonding through fighting?! And Ingrid’s like “Shut up nerd! This is the jock house! You wanna go talk about your feelings, go to the Golden Deer!”

Oh, it’s the 26th now. We’re getting lightly hounded by Hanneman, which is cool with me because he’s a nerd with Igor-from-Persona’s voice. Oh, it’s lore time. Well, it’s nice that Hanneman gets to info-dump ig? Especially if it is maybe compatible with my silly headcanons to basically give everyone superpowers-a surprisingly common thing with me. Also, that was a pretty short lore-dump. And it’s cute to see Hanneman be a dork.

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The Holy Innocents

Dear Ingrid,

Your note moved me deeply. It reminded of that phrase St Paul attributes to Our Lord: “It is more joyful to give than to receive.” Truly, you and your family received much more than you gave to the orphans and young, single mothers you visited after Christmas. Doesn’t it make a difference when you actually MEET the person you’re trying to help? That’s what Christ did by becoming one of us.

But you also bring up a question that deserves answering. You wonder why God allows so much suffering. Those innocent people – especially the children – suffering under the harsh hand of poverty; why does God permit it? We know he is all-powerful, why doesn’t he do something about it?

It’s a question that I almost always find myself asking on today’s Feast, when the whole Church commemorates the Holy Innocents. Of course, you remember who they were. When Jesus was born, wise men came from the east wanting to worship him, to acknowledge him as the promised King of the Jews and give him their allegiance. But when they got to Jerusalem the star they had been following disappeared. They had to ask for directions. Being of noble blood themselves, they had no qualms about approaching the King of Palestine at the time, Herod the Great, and asking him where the newborn King of the Jews could be found. Of course, Herod had no idea that Jesus had been born, and neither did the people of Jerusalem. So everyone was stirred into a frenzy. Herod consulted the experts and divined that the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem, so he sent the wise men there, instructing them to let him know when they found the new king, so Herod too could come and do him homage (so he said). The wise men went to Bethlehem, their star reappeared, they found Jesus with Mary, worshipped him (filled with great joy, the Bible tells us), but didn’t tell Herod. They were warned in a dream not to, and so they surreptitiously returned home.

Herod was furious, not only because they had dared to disobey him (that’s painful for a man so proud and so vain), but because the supposed “king” (Jesus) was still at large. That threatened him. He wanted the kingship for himself and his family; messianic figures sent by God to save the Chosen People had no place in his agenda. So, judging from the info the wise men had given him regarding the star’s first appearance, he gauged that Jesus had been born no earlier than two years previously. With that, he sent his henchman to Bethlehem with instructions to search out all baby boys less than two years old and kill them. That, he surmised, would rid the land of the prophetic usurper. His orders were carried out (Jesus was saved, however, because Joseph got some instructions of his own in a dream, and he took Jesus and Mary to safety in Egypt, just as the original Joseph had done with his “holy” family).

And here we are today, celebrating these massacred babies as the Holy Innocents, martyrs, killed for Christ’s sake. The Liturgy even says, “Father, the Holy Innocents offered you praise by the death they suffered for Christ.” Now, how does that work? An evil man (Herod) commits a horrendous deed, and according the Church this resounds to the glory of God. At first glance, it seems hard to believe. But in truth, it’s quite simple. They suffered for Christ; in other words, the evil was directed at Christ, and it fell upon them. Because of this, God will certainly give them a share in his heavenly glory. All evil, ultimately, is directed against Christ – its source is the devil, and the devil is in rebellion against God. Therefore, when any innocents suffer because of the forces of evil (and evil is always, some way or another, at the source of suffering), they too are taking upon themselves blows meant for Christ. And so we entrust them to God’s mercy.

In other words, God’s answer to the question of why he permits the innocent to suffer is Christ. He sent Christ, and Christ, in his own flesh, redeemed suffering, he made it a path to salvation, by taking it upon himself. That’s why saints don’t respond to injustice with violence; they respond with charity, with love – they share their suffering neighbor’s burden, just as Christ shared ours. And just as you did with the people you visited after Christmas.

I know, these “ideas” and “explanations” don’t take the pain away from the suffering, but they do wrap it up in a bigger package, a package full of meaning and destined for heaven. The only way to understand it completely, so the Church teaches us, is to love Christ and our neighbors more intensely. If that’s the case, you’ll be explaining it all much more completely to me in no time.

Your loving uncle,

Eddy

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Nurture even small positive steps, as these tend to empower people and build momentum toward bigger steps. – Gene Baur • Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it’s all the same. – Daryl Hannah • Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. – Arthur Schopenhauer • Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. – Alexander von Humboldt • Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals’ suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote. – Paul Harvey • Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created. – Jacob Bronowski • For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all. – Cleveland Amory • Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. – Ambrose Bierce • Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that’s a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel. – Ingrid Newkirk • God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. – Arthur Young • He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. – Immanuel Kant • How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. – Frances Hodgson Burnett • However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal. – Janine Turner • Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. – Noam Chomsky • Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. – Milan Kundera • Humans – who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals – have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. – Carl Sagan • Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. – C. S. Lewis • I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. – Abraham Lincoln • I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t…The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. – Mark Twain • I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. – Ellen DeGeneres • I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. – Robert Breault • I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? 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For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals. – Mark Twain • I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. – Mark Twain • I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans. – James Stewart • I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. – Leonardo da Vinci • I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. – Henry David Thoreau • I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs. – James Herriot • I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries. – Romain Rolland • I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don’t betray each other. – Taylor Caldwell • I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. – Peter Kay • I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian. – James Cromwell • If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. – Albert Einstein • If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit. – Robert Breault • If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. – Mark Twain • If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat? – John Cleese • If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. – James Herriot • In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop. – Asa Gray • In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. – Thomas Szasz • In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. – Charles Darwin • It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. – Ivan Pavlov • It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. – Bertrand Russell • It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. – Theophile Gautier • It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a Very Small Animal. – A. A. Milne • It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. – Henrik Ibsen • It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. – Mark Twain • It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. – Haile Selassie • It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. – Sitting Bull • It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing – Gene Baur • Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. – A. A. Milne • Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality. – Dalai Lama • Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers. – Robert Southey • Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem. – Benjamin Hoff • Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. – C. S. Lewis • Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other. – Louis J. Camuti • Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. – Fyodor Dostoevsky • Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. – Albert Schweitzer • Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. – Bertrand Russell • Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. – William Hazlitt • Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. – Oscar Wilde • Man is a reasoning Animal. – Seneca the Younger • Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another. – Adam Smith • Man is by nature a political animal. – Aristotle • Man is the cruelest animal. – Friedrich Nietzsche • Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly. – Diogenes • Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. – Erich Fromm • Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to. – Mark Twain • Man is the only animal that can be bored. – Erich Fromm • Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. – Samuel Butler • Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. – William Hazlitt • Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. – George Orwell • Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that’s got true religion, several of them. – Hal Holbrook • Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. – H. G. Wells • Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he is; yet so are animals, and even plants. They too were born, long ago, into a physico-chemical world, a world they never made. – Karl Popper • Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. – Milan Kundera • Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty. – Emile Zola • Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture. – Lucretius • Men! The only animal in the world to fear. – D. H. Lawrence • No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE. – George Orwell • Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. – Orison Swett Marden • Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. – Mark Twain • Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies. – Mark Twain • Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. – Anatole France • One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles. – Allen Wheelis • One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them. – Martin Luther King, Jr. • Only animals were not expelled from Paradise. – Milan Kundera • People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. – David Attenborough • Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. – Arthur Schopenhauer • Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel. – Carl Linnaeus • The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. – Henry Beston • The animals of the planet are in desperate peril… Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. – Alice Walker • The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. – Alice Walker • The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. – Arthur Schopenhauer • The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world’s history. – R. Edward Freeman • The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences in form. If we could define clearly the differences in molecular constitution and functions of different kinds of organisms, there would be possible a more illuminating and deeper understanding of question of the evolutionary reactions of organisms than could ever be expected from morphological considerations. – Ray Lankester • The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. – W. H. Auden • The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it – Henry Mayhew • The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. – P. G. Wodehouse • The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. – Emile Zola • The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. – Mahatma Gandhi • The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. – Martin Heidegger • The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. – Albert Einstein • The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: ‘What good is it? – Aldo Leopold • The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end. – Ernest Thompson Seton • The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But not until recently has it been recognized that in living organisms, as in the realm of crystals, chemical differences parallel the variation in structure. – Karl Landsteiner • The purity of a person’s heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals – Theophile Gautier • The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind – the lower animals. – John Stuart Mill • The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology. – Edward Thorndike • The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. – Gertrude Stein • There is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God. – Ernest Holmes • There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. – Isaac Bashevis Singer • There’s only one thing that separates us from animals: We aren’t afraid of vacuum cleaners. – Jeff Stilson • This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. – Edward Thorndike • Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals ‘love’ them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. – Edwin Way Teale • To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. – Romain Rolland • To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse. – Neal Barnard • To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal. – Jane Goodall • Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is – whether its victim is human or animal – we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. – Rachel Carson • Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. – Anatole France • We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. – Anna Sewell • We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. – Immanuel Kant • We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. – William Ralph Inge • We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace. – Albert Schweitzer • We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. – Henry Beston • When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. – Isaac Bashevis Singer • When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He’s the one who got me to be a really big animal lover. – Paris Hilton • Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace … To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish. – Francis Maitland Balfour • Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. – James Anthony Froude • Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . . – Chuck Palahniuk • Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none… If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science. – Carl Linnaeus • Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps caricatures – of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. – Michael J. Fox • Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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INGMAR BERGMAN’S ‘CRIES AND WHISPERS’ “She’s already beginning to rot…”

We’re off and running with another breathtaking film by Ingmar Bergman, namely, Cries and Whispers (1972). The nature of this production entails, as usual, thrilling motivations most of us had never thought about. And here we must put into the mix, as never so emphatically before, that the uniqueness of that delivery entails being without any effective allies. We have encountered, in the films by Bergman so far, a species of more or less thriving upon that neglect, a warrior sensibility. But enfolded within that tang, we are also alerted to partaking of the powers implicit in cooperation, cooperation with those who don’t and never will, give a damn for what a figure like Bergman would live for, however chaotically.

Our film today attends remarkably to that estrangement, and, as a result, lingers with the personnel in such a way as to garner from (some of) them a direction to love. The film’s saga involves two protagonists; and we choose here to spotlight one, a woman, namely, Agnes, who has already died from cancer in the earlier part but conveys her golden moment at the film’s final seconds, by way of a diary, read by Anna, her long-time housemaid (though presented by the diarist’s voice-over). The event recorded involves desultory Agnes being paid a visit to the family manor (under her keeping) by her two sisters whom she has allowed to more or less overtly treat her as a non-entity, as she was treated by her mother. Braced, as the latter were, by her long-term illness, there is a moment of vision emanating from their ramble upon the palatial grounds, strewn with golden leaves. “It’s wonderful to be together again… Suddenly we began to laugh and run toward the old swing that we hadn’t seen since we were children [when kinetics were at least as favorable as frozenness]. We sat in it like three good little sisters, and Anna pushed us slowly and gently. All my aches and pains were gone. I could hear them chatting around me… I could feel the presence of their bodies, the warmth of their hands. I wanted to hold the moment fast, and thought, ‘Come what may, this is happiness. I cannot wish for anything better. Now, for a few moments, I can experience perfection. And I feel profoundly grateful to my life which gives me so much…” (Those visiting angels having—along with Agnes’ skittishness—tossed divided but meritorious Anna to the sharks.)

The full-color composition (unique up until this time for Bergman) needs to be broached, along with the previous films, as a positioning of the urgency of fearlessness. With this particular vehicle, however, we’re on the hook to attending most closely to the apparatus required to fully show what’s ticking here. Therefore, as usual (but not quite the same), we posit, “How new is new?” You’d never have gotten from him anything explicit about the possibility that gigantic and unprecedented change has begun to make inroads and that that uprising (but tempered) is where art attains its stature. Apart from playing the movie game that the single work on tap must stand entirely on the basis of the screen being watched, there would be, however, the understandable discomfort that—unlike the folk reservoir of normal filmic presentation—matters of reflective complexity, generally assumed to be the purview of science and other academic disciplines, have become necessities. Just because the entrenched classical rational experts would utterly dismiss any validity not certified by their practices, does not disable a figure like Bergman to take matters into his own accomplished hands, in his own medium of communication. As such, his work being an extended research of sensibility, the various steps of his disclosures comprise, unlike the normal, disparate entertainments, a constant, expanding investigation, very germane to earlier discoveries. Unlike conceptual building blocks of a technical nature, Bergman has at his disposal, not only a manifold of dramatic sensibility by way of his screenwriting and Sven Nykvist’s cinematography, but a cadre of performers the varying roles of which, from-film-to-film, increase a current of intent or temper a performer’s previous apparition, for the sake of comprehending the volatility of discernment and its creative capacities as a co-host of the cosmos.

Cries and Whispers carries along another cinematic power, namely, the efforts of other filmmakers the work of which being variously able to leverage the efforts of Bergman. Our film here devotes vast areas of a range of red walls and accessories for the interior of the palatial estate. In 1965, Michelangelo Antonioni launched a venture, namely, Red Desert, the redness of which speaking to widespread malignancy and malaise. In the Jacques Demy musical films, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and Donkey Skin (1970), the settings have been enhanced by pronounced color saturation, for the surrealistic sake of overcoming a profoundly inadequate mainstream. On such templates we’re treated to our guide’s “cyclotron,” the ingredients of which consisting of acrobatics and an impossible trick of juggling—as wild and wonderful in 1972 as it was when launched in the film, The Seventh Seal, in 1957. The first protagonist, Agnes, a spinster and amateur painter, nearing the end of a long struggle with cancer, at the end of the nineteenth century, has drawn to her family heights her two sisters and their spouses, but without their children. The gulf between her horror and their easy anticipations is not the main gulf in the picture. The actress playing Agnes, namely, Harriet Anderson, starred, in 1960, in a film called, Through a Glass Darkly, as Karin, whose husband, a medical doctor, so detests her unconventional physicality that he nudges her toward believing she is schizophrenic and belongs in a mental hospital. She loses her equilibrium during the stresses of a family reunion, comes to a default position in claiming to have seen God to be a giant spider; and infers, as a promising rally, that she should leave her family and do some independent thinking in that rather incongruous sickbay. One of the sisters, Maria, a decorative seductress, is played by Liv Ullmann, who, in 1966, six years before our current puzzle, played the part of a decorative, notable actress coming to a crisis and opting to enter a mental hospital in the guise of having lost her interest in speaking. This silent Elisabet, in face of annoyance from a presumptuous medic and also some street smarts and affection, climbs to a portal where the trick of juggling (making the best of a clumsy talent pool) rears its head. The oldest sister, Karin, is performed by actress, Ingrid Thulin, who, in the film, The Silence(1963), portrayed an overbearing nit-picking prig and prude who teeters close to emotional collapse but draws upon a reservoir of majoritarian dominance. In our current picture she has to be probed carefully, being in fact the other, and more important, protagonist. Though in a flash-back we see her slashing her vagina with a shard of smashed wine glass and rubbing the blood over her lips in annoyance with her insectile husband, billed as a “diplomat,” she does have what might not be an A-game but acrobatic skills to ponder.

We get to know a lot about Agnes during what seems a rare uptick in her palliative days. Maria, eliciting a measure of placid juggling in lieu of a preamble of gut-wrenching acrobatics (thereby being a pale shadow of Elisabet), proposes taking up her ongoing readings of Charles Dickens’ novel, The Pickwick Papers, to which the invalid replies, “Oh, I’d love it!” Though roughing up a doleful soul for her choice of pleasure would be pretty cheesy in most cases, here there is nothing short of dynamite in this disappointment, as the installment catches fire. “Chapter 34, in which Mr. Pickwick thinks he’d better go to Bath and goes accordingly” [that a sponge bath administered by the sisters has closely preceded this remark hopes to alert the viewer that they should read into the text something pertaining to Agnes’ stature]. “ ‘But surely, my dear, sir,’ said little Parkin, as he stood in Mr. Pickwick’s apartment… ‘Surely you don’t really mean, really and seriously now… and irritation apart… that you won’t pay these costs and damages?’ ” Pay the cost, or forever lost. Or: cover an ongoing acrobatic demand or commit a horror on the order of self-mutilation.

By way of reveries of her childhood, from out of confinement in that blood-red homestead, Agnes shows us that the singular life of paying the costs is not for her and that some of that redness is her contribution to that plague-ridden realm. (Along with the introduction of acrobatics, in The Seventh Seal, there is a plague in the land.) There is an omnibus flash-back, centering upon her mother, which constitutes a ground zero as to her remaining a wimp. Liv Ullmann, acting in double-duty here, becomes the Venus of the preceding generation, one of a series, no doubt, of spoiled, precious airheads. There she is, in elaborate apparel, with a tiny Agnes in thrall and kept at a distance, as if the less than pretty girl would reduce her heights. “I loved her at such a jealous extreme! I loved her because she was so gentle and beautiful and alive and so pervadingly present. But she could also be cold, playfully cruel… and rebuff me … [shades of Ullmann’s gorgeous Elisabet, in Persona, rebuffing her ugly little boy]. I wish I could see her again…” [That’s easier than she thinks.] That dotage being the linchpin of the action’s catastrophe. Thereby she misses the pertinence of a cut to a magic lantern party, at Twelfth Night, involving a “Wicked Witch,” and also the trickery (of the “Hansel and Gretel” saga on tap—an “impossible” trick being the bedrock of her best (and ignored) prospect. She does not, however, miss the constant attentions to Maria, played by Liv Ullmann’s young daughter, during the party, leaving our minor protagonist fretting from a distance. “I was the only one who couldn’t join in the merriment.” After a cut, Agnes, hoping to effect a more rounded picture of her home life, proceeds with, “Another time, I remember … I hid behind the curtain and in secret watched her arrange roses on her writing table. Suddenly, she saw me and, in a gentle voice called me. Uncertain, I went up to her, thinking that, as usual, she was going to scold me. But instead she gave me a look so full of sorrow that I nearly burst into tears. I raised my hand, put it against her cheek. And for that moment we were very close.” That was frail Agnes’ sense of the moment. The camera, on the other hand, does not lie in showing that, while the little girl felt to be loved at last, her vastly cheap mother was beholding her like a thorn in her side, a hopeless cause.

This latter vignette ends with a cut to the patient in her final stage. The intensity of the death throes tends to eclipse the real problematic that that was a pariah who was at the early stages of being under a gun that would never go away, necessitating extreme measures. Before leaving her to myopia and cries and whispers, we must appreciate those factors which might have been decisive. Anxious as Agnes remained, about her position in the scheme of her family, there was wanton neglect of the scheme of her more telling life. Raising a rather feeble gesture in the order of painterly beauty, our protagonist/ victim consistently fussed about her family, and lost the world. Her wild animal braying from a pain now killing, though hard to behold, opens a portal of sensuous energy buried way too long. The film begins with the grace and bounty of the grounds of that funerial confinement. First, as a calm dawn begins, we see hundred-years-stout tree trunks in silhouette, tracing to upper branches carrying our glance amidst those configurations, and presaging those compositions of innovative art which have nothing to do with deletant domesticity. The dashes of sharp sunlight playing over that initial scene carry their vivacity into the following stage, whereby the morning mists shower another prospect, this time steady rays of light alighting upon the greenery. Another cut shows a statue of Orpheus with his lyre being part of a sunny park where the positions of the trees and the dispositions of the leaves induce a deep breath. From there, another unseen region, namely, the interior of the mansion with all asleep, shows what it can do. To the beat of ticking sounds, we are given a tour of Age of Enlightenment clock faces, the textures of their grounds, the variety and motions of their hands, along with bronze embellishments like a child angel looking through a telescope, and also a Medusa as a pendulum; and mathematical mechanism. As if this offering, unseen by the players, were not enough to contemplate, we should hold on to something even more evanescent. Along with a red ground to begin, there is the almost inaudible chime of a triangle. As it strikes, sporadically, it brings along that motif of synthesis on the grounds of acrobatics and juggling, that exigency Bergman is so right not to let go. That gunning forward toward advantage (an Age of Enlightenment key word) is a Mr. Pickwick outrage which Agnes subscribes to, and comes to a silent crescendo in that reverie of the three sisters on the swing. Maria and Karin flanking the protagonist going nowhere. Here was the geometry, but where was the music?

You’re not likely to believe this (before I explain), but a lady with a measure of mojo was on the swing, namely, Karin, the one being unreasonable with the broken glass. (You’ll see that she, like promiscuous and cruel, Anna, in the film, The Silence, would not be someone you’d want to meet; but someone worth studying. And sharing the name of the protagonist, in, Through a Glass Darkly, would also be bemusing, at least.) Whereas that “Twelfth Night” flow of jealousy was shown from Agnes’ perspective, there was a very brief moment showing a young Karin, also not in the holiday spirit. Whereas Agnes has rather frantically here become a student of her opulent family, there are ways of indicating that Karin opts for a very different response. In real time, she’s introduced as the unsmiling, taciturn foil to Maria’s “diplomatic” charms, “humanly” honed by a history of affection, and comfortable in her role as generous care-giver, along with Agnes’ needy appreciation. (Her diverting resumption of throwing herself at the doctor during a visit to Agnes may not have gone well; but the quantification of her maneuvers ensures lusty profits notwithstanding. Here we must recognize that the Anna in, The Silence, looks pretty good, by comparison.)

She catches brief but quite remarkable fire from the deadly intensity of the closeness of death, and proposes giving Agnes a sponge bath, during a lull in the agony. Rather startlingly, Karin, too, is lifted by the occasion, producing smiles and a surprising level of serenity in her motions. Where did that come from, all of a sudden? Perhaps the quiet one has a sustaining history of her own. Earlier in the night, in a dark room where she was reading by a gaslight, possibly something more weighty than Dickens, she calls, Anna, “Do you hear?” The busy and faithful servant, whom we have come to regard as close to a saint, admits, “I only hear the wind and the clocks ticking.” “No! It’s something else!” Karin insists. “I don’t hear anything, why?” the usually acute stalwart maintains. So nonplussed is the odd-one out, she rather misses the mark in describing her confusion: “I’m freezing!” (In the aforementioned film, Thulin/ Ester is seized by chills, fleeting, as compared with her sister’s sweltering in face of a totally inadequate dispensation.) Then there is Agnes complaining to Anna, “I’m freezing…” Soon she is dead; and while Maria backs off and falls apart, Karin, along with Anna, composes the corpse on her deathbed, the three sets of hands upstaging all the sculptures in the building. Thereupon, a modest embrace of the freezing sisters. The triangle mingles with that workload, a feat of passion brooking no relentment but seeing much to celebrate. The flashback of cut-throat diplomacy surfaces there, with some cut-the-crap clarity going forward. As she ponders upon that instrument of pain, Karin tells herself, “It’s but a tissue of lies. It’s a monumental tissue of lies…” (recalling the unhelpful declaration of Tomas, which pushes a suicidal parishioner over the cliff, in the film Winter Light [1962]). Also noteworthy, there is stressed Karin slapping Anna (helping her with her bedclothes before the coup de grace), losing her nerve for a moment. Karin quickly apologizes; and the elite servant and companion does not accept the apology.

Back to the aftermath of the death, we see Karin going over the prosaic (but not necessarily prosaic) task of checking the costs. Her hands and the sensuous grey paper mean business, not as usual. She takes in hand her pince nez reading glasses and slightly flips it upward and downward to the bed of paper constituting but one type of nitty gritty. (The protagonist in First Man [2018] has been seen to be closer to pay dirt flipping a pince nez than hopping around the moon.) Then she gives a spin to that shard of glass, beholding its ripple in the gentle light. At this juncture of rich destiny, Maria comes into the office, and her perception of the moment of vision ignites more mysteries. “Karin, I want us to be friends. I want us to talk to each other. You read much more than I do, you think much more than I do. Your experience is far greater… Couldn’t we devote these days to getting to know each other, finally?” Not wanting another brutal smash like the failing with Anna, she listens to that creature she knows only too well. “We could put our arms around each other… We could talk together for days and nights on end…” (Here we’ve been put to the test to compare how doubting Tomas, in Winter Light, came to put up with “togetherness” maven Marta.) Karin, feeling caught up in a dilemma that can’t work for her, gets up from her desk and heads for the door—an acrobat paying costs of depth which only begins her “thinking.” Holding her back in her exit, Maria—a diplomat of some efficacy—calls out, “It’s easy to do, but I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.” After a cut—accomplished, as always, by a blood-red cloud, that emblem of possible efficacy—there is Karin, confused and pensive. Maria comes in, again, finding her sister reading Agnes’ diary. Now a bit more forthcoming, she reads, “ ‘I received the gift anyone can receive in this life… a gift that is called many things…togetherness…companionship, relatedness, affection…’” [the visual is Anna, by Agnes’ bed]. “ ‘I think this is what is called grace…’” Maria, who was wandering about when the reading was given, moves to touch Karen’s shoulder, and finds the latter spinning away from her. “No, don’t touch me. Don’t come near me!” Togetherness becoming an outrage due to the effort of paying the costs cheek-by-jowl with refusing to pay the costs. Maria, aka Elisabet, comes behind Karin, in a facsimile of the Persona sisters. Maria touches Karin’s cheek and the latter, though backing off, does not repel the approach as before. Soon she is allowing herself to be caressed by that functionary of skin. However, she soon insists, “I don’t want you to do that… I don’t want you to be kind to me” [because I have no resources to be appreciative toward a coward like Maria]. “I can’t! I can’t stand it!” (The optics, particularly the lighting, preserves the uncanny tonal spike, in face of Karin’s melodramatic tailspin, for instance, “It’s like being in the greatest hell. I can’t breathe anymore. All of that guilt!”) After a battlefield fade, Karin apologizes for her “lost control,” and the prosaic “formalities” of selling the property occupy their conversation. No generous consideration for Maria occurs to the other one-note sibling in the room, a sibling unique in the film’s universe for possibly becoming a true aristocrat. Groping for that elusive stature, she tells disappointed sentimentalist Maria, “I’ve often thought about suicide.” (Here we have her less than compelling default stand, by comparison with the man frightened to suicide by the prospect of China gaining nuclear weapons, in, Winter Light.) Then she brings up her husband’s slight that she’s “clumsy”—“I fumble!” Now a glutton for the sensational that goes nowhere, she turns on her slack sister having, for once, had an inspiration. “You thought our talk would be different, didn’t you? Do you realize I hate you? And how foolish I find your insipid smiles and your idiotic flirtatiousness… You understand? Nothing can escape me… for I see it all… Now you learn how it sounds when Karin talks!” (This latter weakling flourish is exactly the one Alma the nurse directs upon Elisabet the silent goddess [Liv Ullmann], in Persona. Having reached an almost complete self-embarrassment, our protagonist cries out, and Maria, who had been reduced to tears, rushes to her; and hears from the “all-seeing,” “Forgive me!” Unlike Anna, Maria does forgive, and the togetherness/ grace catches fire; but not for very long. With a Bach cello composition evoking primordial relatedness, we behold the pair lovingly illuminating their kinetic best, the associated shut-down of sound endowing the tete-a-tete as similar to a Botticelli painting. They whisper in each other’s ears as if revelations of hidden forces had been released. In close-up, Maria seems pensive; in close-up Karin seems tentative and adventurous. This elevated effort comes to an end as colliding with Anna’s last-ditch enlistment of the sisters to steady her fears of poverty. She inhabits the cusp of Agnes’ being no more, and calls upon, first circumspect Karin and then sentimental Maria, to soothe the lost sister. Her prefatory fanfare—“Don’t you hear it?”—stands in stark contrast to that, “Do you hear?” of Karin, which Anna can’t take seriously. Karin is the first one summoned, and her harsh reception to old-style mysticism quickly brings the interview to a halt. “I won’t accept involvement with your death. Perhaps if I loved you… but I do not love you… It’s pure morbidity, disgusting, meaningless. She’s already begun to rot…” The meeting with Maria becomes the latter’s running away in terror. The departure of the funeral party is notable for Karin hoping to sustain the confluence her acrobatics finds essential; and for acrobaticless Maria treating that fling as if it were only a fling. “Could we hold to all our resolutions?” Maria, perhaps a bit miffed by her sisters’ acceding to her deadened husband’s making Anna walk the plank; but transparently back to her mode of gyrating mush, makes a cardboard smile and lisps, “Dearest Karin, why on earth shouldn’t we do that?” Resuming the venomous treatment by Elisabet toward ardent Alma, in Persona, she carries on with, “It’s that everything seems different since that evening.” Karin quietly remonstrates, “I think we’ve become very much closer… What are you thinking about?” The lifetime baby doll, tries, “I’m thinking about the conversation…” “No, you’re not,” the friend in need asserts. Thereby the woman always on the go rephrases her thought, “I was thinking about how [her cuckold husband] Joakin hates it if I keep him waiting… I have no idea why you call me to account as if I were on trial for my thoughts, Karin. What do you want?” In close-up, Karin looks down in disarray. “Nothing,” is what she realizes she must expect—from Maria; but what about the world at large?

Popping up during the funeral formalities, we do get a little fizz from the world at large, surprisingly in the form of the local bishop. (Karin’s diplomat. in a post-mortem moment, counts them as lucky that the clergyman has the flu and therefore their being spared his presence at the dinner following the burial. Looking closely, we see he’s hale and hearty and floats a little white lie to avoid a party of ghouls.) You’ll recognize a fascinatingly tempered version of the rally of Tomas, in, Winter Light. As with Algot the sidekick, there are sextons and candles, here at the entryway to Agnes’s resting place. What you will notice, first and foremost, is that this first swing of the death ritual is light on the big powers and remarkably a weighty eulogy to rather underwhelming Agnes, as if she were on the hunt of something which very few have hazard. “Could it be that you gathered up our suffering and agony into your body. Should it be that you leave with you this hardship through death. Should it be that you meet with God… [Algot slipping when he goes beyond the wonderment that venerable safety nets won’t do. Hence the overestimation of old-timey good news, somewhat upstaging a hard and nourishing magic.] … as you come to that other land… Should it be that you find his countenance turned toward you there [the nature of sensibility being not something to take for granted while sitting on a ruinous scenario]. Should it be that you know the language to speak… So this God may hear and understand… Should it be that you then talk with this God… [the conditional tense here, like that of Algot’s heresy, a weird and wonderful push-back upon millennia being stupefyingly inadequate, while spilling over to wooden humanitarianism and science!]… and he hear you out. Should it be so… pray for us… Agnes, dear child, please listen to what I have to tell you now. Pray for us who have been left in darkness… left behind on this miserable Earth, with the sky above us grim and empty…” [Agnes’ diary being on a very distant page from this dip to formalities]. The last word of this singularity dressed up to seem more of the same is an instance of great theatrical irony. “Her faith was stronger than mine.”

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GASLIGHTING IN FILM

Almost since its inception, the film industry erases the experiences of women. Out of 88 films that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture, 14 feature female protagonists and none are directed by women. The popular 1001 Movies to See Before You Die has only ever included 52 films directed by women out of the 1199 films the series has printed. There are standouts throughout film history about the female experience, both through the eyes of men and women. Most interesting is the presentation of abuse and abusive tactics in film against women. Most frequently presented is physical violence until George Cukor’s 1944 film entitled “Gaslight”. Thus emerged the term “gaslighting”. However, the term was not looked on or popular until most recently. Here explores what gaslighting means as a term and how it is presented in specific films, looking through the lens of feminist theory - Gaslight (1944), Diabolique (1955), Rosemary’s Baby (1968), and mother! (2017).

To begin, film theory and studies began in the early 1960’s. Theories inspired by ideology and rhetoric arose, including a small group of women scholars and academics who developed feminist theory at the height of the second wave. Molly Haskell, Laura Mulvey, and others became scholars on the topic and further drove the ideas behind feminist film theory - including representation, sociology, and “the male gaze” to the entirety of film history. The theory further developed into intersectional ideas about women of color, sexualities, and abilities in film, as well as dismantling or having discourse of horror tropes such as “the final girl”.

Gaslight follows Ingrid Bergman as Paula, who marries Charles Boyer’s Gregory after a short romance. His behavior quickly spirals into emotional abuse, making Paula believe she is hysterical. Paula gains the upper hand in the end by uncovering Gregory’s plans to murder his wife and giving his treatment towards her briefly back to him in return. The film is the namesake for the term, coined 20 years after its premiere. Gaslighting, as depicted in the film, is an abuse tactic where the person in power manipulates their victim into believing their reality is made up. Child psychologists took notice to manipulation from guardians or other adults with children in the 1960’s, which developed the term outside of colloquialisms into psychology. Since the setting of Gaslight is in late 19th century London, historical contexts explain that Paula’s power in society as a woman was small. Husbands had the power to claim “hysteria” over their wives or blame morals or life events to wives spiraling out, the general popular idea outside of alienism that their wives were “being punished by God”. While Paula on her own can claim some sort of independence without Gregory - being an opera singer and gaining income via her profession - she loses any sense of control after events such as Gregory claiming she’s a kleptomaniac, that the street lamps glowing and going out were her imagination, and isolating her from others. The relationship that occurs between husband and wife, Molly Haskell writes, is not a typical heterosexual romance. Violence against Paula is psychoanalytically sexual and the romance is “unlike the 30s” since it relies on distrust and contempt that bubbles up. Paula, in the end, confronts her abuser and turns his game on him. This is the only instance in which a victim gains the power back in any films mentioned. Possibly Paula’s capital in society allows her to stand up to her abuser and the audience can assume she can gain happiness once again post-film.

Diabolique is more subtle in its use of gaslighting, as it occurs mostly in the third act of the film. Simone Signoret and Vera Clouzot - Henri Georges Clouzot’s real life wife - play teachers at a boarding school, run by Christina’s (Clouzot) husband, Michel. Nicole (Signoret) is the mistress of Michel and the two bond over their mutual victimhood under Michel’s verbal and physical abuse. A plot to kill him goes awry when the body goes missing. Clouzot takes from Alfred Hitchcock - a woman in trouble and a problem that won’t go away. Christina and Nicole aren’t necessarily like normal Hitchcock blondes, but are common themes on the blonde-brunette trope. Christina is pious, wears double plaits, sweet, and her hubris lies in her weak heart. Nicole outwardly smokes in the school, is morally ambiguous, and is colder. While the film pushes the women together, the audience quickly realizes in the end (and is cued in an early conversation between the women about Michel claiming Christina will die soon and what Nicole said in response - “I don’t want to know”) they are pitted against one another for the sake of sex. Regardless of Christina’s desire to be free of Michel, she is dragged down by him and eventually dies because of him. The camera frames Christina in a more sensuous, voyeuristic way than Nicole. Christina writhes in bed in her nearly sheer white nightgown, the backlight showing a glimpse of her outline as she trails the halls to find the source of a mysterious noise. Since Michel’s death is a construction of his and Nicole’s doing, Christina suffers from mental and physical turmoil because of the gaslighting pranks. Clouzot punishes all of the characters involved, but frames Christina strangely. She stands small under Michel and Nicole, who seem to act more like adults than she does. Christina is infantilized throughout the film, treated parallelly like the child who continues to see Michel in the boarding school even though he has been pronounced dead. The boy is punished. The world of Diabolique may involve children, but makes no place for them or any sort of irrational thought. Christina and the young boy are by no means hysterical - they truly saw what they saw. The suspense of fear in everyday life, as Clouzot frames it, shows no mercy to anyone involved.

Quickly following suit of both films but with an element of fantasy, Rosemary’s Baby embodies the horrific abuse one woman endures sexually and psychologically. Rosemary Woodhouse, played by an increasingly frail Mia Farrow, is stuck between the 1960’s rising women’s movement and the post-war 1950s sensibilities of motherhood and patriarchal households. For the role, Polanski wanted his wife Sharon Tate whose physicality is more modelesque and full-figured. Mia Farrow herself suffered great mental torment doing the film, as her then-husband Frank Sinatra did not want her career to continue. The scene in which a sickly Rosemary sobs in front of her friends in the kitchen, away from her husband, evoked real emotions from Farrow after being served divorce papers on set. Actor Maurice Evans and Roman Polanski convinced Farrow to continue with the film. The realities of behind the scenes and onscreen parallel each other and the use of Rosemary and Farrow - men exert their power to push women into situations that they are less than keen about for their own gain. Polanski would gain award nominations and acclaim, Guy Woodhouse “Fausted” his wife to gain fame and capital in his acting career. Rosemary becomes increasingly aware of how odd her pregnancy is and tries to break herself from suffering. The only people in the film who do not gaslight Rosemary are her friends, but they do not re-appear. In horror film fashion, Rosemary escapes to try and change gynecologists, but is quickly retrieved by her husband and Dr. Saperstein, her old gynecologist. They convince her that the baby dies, but she finds out later after being isolated in her apartment that her body was commodified in exchange for birthing the son of Satan. While Polanski frames Rosemary as a victim, he eroticizes her torture. She is young, beautiful, and nubile - her abuse is implemented through sex. Polanski in this instance, as well as in Repulsion and The Fearless Vampire Killers sees women as instruments of fear and personifications of torture, but allows women no way out of it.

While made many years later and films that include gaslighting are far and few in between, Darren Aronofsky’s mother! follows the same vein Rosemary’s Baby started. While Aronofsky states after screenings that the film is more of an allegory about the current treatment of the environment by corporations and general populations, he doesn’t give enough credit to the outright depiction of manipulation and distribution of power between male and female characters. Jennifer Lawrence’s character, stylized as “mother”, is frequently ignored, berated, and eventually physically abused. Him, mother’s husband, claims artistic integrity behind his intentions and does not defend or save his wife when he lets hordes of fans into their home and they wreak havoc. Lawrence claims the film is about “the rape and torment of Mother Earth”. Aronofsky’s intentions are unclear. Through the abuse of women and the last shot explaining to the audience that the cycle is doomed to continue with new versions of mother, he seems to take a stand that the abuse is morally wrong, but is still vague. Much like Rosemary, mother has no control in her narrative and is ultimately doomed because of her situation. She sacrifices herself for her husband who benefits from her abuse. Unfortunately, the film comes off as an artistic half pat on the back for Aronofsky instead of pushing forward the current pull for better representation of women in film. Mother can be flawed and suffer as a character, but, according to feminist theory, she should not exist to prove a point or drive the plot for anyone but herself.

All of the films involved, including some that were not mentioned but also deal with either gaslighting or abuse, are stories about women created by men. While some directors frequently deal with the nuances of womanhood (i.e. George Cukor, Roman Polanski on occasion), many are not well versed in dealing with hardships and abuse involving women and have been accused of being abusers themselves. While some have succeeded at bringing the idea of gaslighting to film, the sentiment is still not fully there. As women filmmakers are gaining more recognition, it would be interesting and vital to see what a female director or writer will do with abuse tactics in film and how the characters come out of or deal with it.

Works Cited

Chow, Kat. “Gaslighting: How A Flicker Of Self-Doubt Warps Our Response To Sexual Harassment.” National Public Radio, 25 Nov. 2017, www.npr.org/2017/11/25/565729334/gaslighting-how-a-flicker-of-self-doubt-warps-our-response-to-sexual-harassment.

Haskell, Molly. From Reverence to Rape: the Treatment of Women in the Movies. Second ed., U. Of Chicago P., 1987.

Penley, Constance. Feminism and Film Theory. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc., 1988.

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• A few doors away was the Baptist Church, and as I walked towards it I began to think that people didn’t want me to share their church. As I walked through the Baptist door I was tense, waiting for that tap on the shoulder…but instead I was given a hymn book and welcomed into the church. I sat through the service…This up and down treatment wasn’t doing my nerves much good. – Can Themba • A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action. – John Dewey • A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. – Thomas Carlyle • A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. – Seneca the Younger • A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: ‘They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man – and then expect us to act like a lady. – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn • A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, “Stop trying to make me like you,” and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral. – John Waters • Administration officials, in fact, have repeatedly condemned ISIS for its treatment of religious minorities, including Christians. But a bipartisan resolution now moving through Congress calls on the administration to go further and say ISIS is guilty of genocide. – Tom Gjelten • Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in the form of declassified documents, memoirs, oral histories and journalistic treatments, to begin to piece together the story. – Fredrik Logevall • After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack’s Car, but that didn’t last. – Jack Irons • An educator should think of a child as a gardener thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right soil and the right amount of water. If your roses fail to bloom, it does not occur to you to whip them, but you try to find out what has been amiss in your treatment of them. … The important thing is what the children do, and not what they do not do. And what they do, if it is to have value, must be a spontaneous expression of their own vital energy. – Bertrand Russell • An individual’s treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit. – Catharine MacKinnon • Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units. – Margaret Chan • Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts. – John Stossel • As J.R. I could get away with anything – bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new ‘Dallas’ series. – Larry Hagman • As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they’re going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work. – Frances O’Grady • As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction. – Jim Ramstad • At one point I had a stretch where it was working on ‘In Treatment,’ then ‘True Blood,’ then ‘Durham County,’ then ‘True Blood,’ then ‘In Treatment’ again. If I didn’t have that little dose of ‘True Blood’ in the middle, I might have lost my mind. – Michelle Forbes • At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. – Soren Kierkegaard • Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good. – Harvey V. Fineberg

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Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children. – Cory Booker • Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck. – Ingrid Newkirk • But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them. – Isaiah Berlin • But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles. Upon this principle I have based a practice. – Joseph Lister • By the time of the ’90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined. – James Surowiecki • Childbirth is a wonderful thing, but the reality is that it can dramatically change a woman’s body. SUI occurs when the vaginal wall weakens and cannot provide adequate support to the urethra, thus causing leaking. The good news is that women with SUI have many different treatment options available to them. – Dennis Miller • Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work. – Max Beckmann • Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord’s sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood. – Ignatius of Loyola • Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia. – Nathan Deal • Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement. – James Cash Penney • Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer’s and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better. – Michael Milken • Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease. – Denis Parsons Burkitt • Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best. – Ben Goldacre • Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology. – Steven Pinker • Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime. – Janet Frame • Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I’m a Muslim and ‘randomly’ pull me aside for ‘special treatment’. My sincere hope and prayer is that, on the Day of Judgment, my Lord’s angels also recognize me as a Muslim and pull me aside for special treatment – Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi • Everybody deserves fair treatment, equal treatment in the eyes of the law and the state. And that includes gays, lesbians, transgender persons. I am not a fan of discrimination and bullying of anybody on the basis of race, on the basis of religion, on the basis of sexual orientation or gender. This is actually part and parcel of the agenda that’s also going to be front and centre, and that is how are we treating women and girls. – Barack Obama • Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women’s issue – it is a fundamental economic issue. – Madeleine M. Kunin • Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to sit down and talk to us about the work we do, how we do it, and what we get paid for it. And I believe that the principles for which we fought in 1934 are still true and still useful. Whether your job is pushing a four-wheeler, or programming a computer, I don’t know of any way for working people to win basic economic justice and dignity except by being organized into a solid, democratic union. – Harry Bridges • First, modify the patient’s diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture. – Sun Simiao • For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict – because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds. – Richard K. Morgan • For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty. – Arthur Machen • From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment. – Garry Disher • Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. – Dennis Prager • Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied. – Plutarch • Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don’t have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it’s a very difficult conversation. It’s emotionally draining. – Ezekiel Emanuel • He had Parkinson’s disease for about, I’d say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We’re still going along and he died in ’85 and he was 77. – Lynn Redgrave • He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment. – Nora Roberts • He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. – Immanuel Kant • Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay. – Gary Miller • How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? – Constance Baker Motley • I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. – Terry Pratchett • I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction. – William Banting • I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication? – Gene Tierney • I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. – Ken Venturi • I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. – Ernest Thompson Seton • I believe the best in people. I believe if you need a bathroom break you go to the bathroom. If you need treatment, you get treatment. I don’t think any rules should be changed. – Caroline Wozniacki • I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get. – Greg Walden • I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress. – Vivienne Westwood • I dont have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day. – Gail Devers • I don’t mean to harp on this, but it’s like the networks are a how-to manual for terrorists. You see them on the news. This reporter is standing outside a water treatment plant, going, ‘If they poured the poison here it could wipe out thousands because the guard is off duty from noon until 1 every day!’ – Jay Leno • I don’t think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can’t make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for. – Mark Vonnegut • I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others. – Rebecca Lee Crumpler • I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others. – Queen Latifah • I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you’re a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries. – Helene Hanff • I go home and don’t get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don’t get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven’t loaded the dishwasher for her. – Katherine Jenkins • I had always loved John Ford’s pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me. – Ethel Waters • I had three sessions of chemotherapy so it was really tough, it was hard to go through it. But while I was going through my treatment, I was always motivated that I was going to come back and play for India. I think that’s what kept me going and got me through. – Yuvraj Singh • I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system – one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy. – Andrew Weil • I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people’s treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to. – Sinead O’Connor • I haven’t decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven’t made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race. – Sarah Vowell • I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not. – Brooke Shields • I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way. – Patty Duke • I make sure I have the best: I figure you could spend $800 on an outfit you wear three times, but with your hair it’s there all the time. I also think it is really important to look after your colour once it’s been done. I try and give my hair a really nourishing mask every so often to combat against all the styling. I also love to have beauty treatments that really benefit, like massages. t’s divine to get up and feel all zen and relaxed. – Cat Deeley • I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it’s women who throw their underwear at me when I’m performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop. – Ellie Goulding • I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar. – Demi Lovato • I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art. – Vladimir Nabokov • I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel’s security or advances U.S. national interests. – Lois Capps • I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I’ve been given. It’s all been earned. Therefore I feel it’s incumbent on me personally to just contribute something, to add to a collective voice that needs to be here right now, to build it up to a tipping point, to make the world aware that women’s rights still have to be addressed and that the word ‘feminism’ has been devalued and needs to be reclaimed. – Annie Lennox • I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment of the more slowly moving branches of science would be out of place here. Rather with the pen of a journalist we must attempt to record a momentary phase of current thought, which may at any instant change with kaleidoscopic abruptness. – Gilbert N. Lewis • I think I’ve definitely had my rock bottom and I think that was probably right before I went into treatment where I said, ‘I definitely need help.’ – Demi Lovato • I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce this kind of music in a camp? All the prison camp stories I’ve seen, and heard of, were about the heroism of men. As I researched this and heard the music, I realized that women were heroic too, on just as grand a scale. And their treatment was just as appalling. – Bruce Beresford • I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do. – Charles J. Chaput • I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. – Hippocrates • If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering. – Princess Diana • If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long. – Salman Rushdie • If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away. – Ned Kelly • If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed. – Plato • If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals. – Peter Singer • If we ensure access to health care and ‘best practice’ asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars. – Irwin Redlener • If you’re happy, if you’re feeling good, then nothing else matters. – Robin Wright • I’m a low maintenance girl. I try to do very little when I don’t have to. I find that if I have regular ‘maintenance’ treatments, I can be ready to go out in 5 minutes. I get my hair coloured, have regular massages, and love getting my lashes tinted and my brows shaped. Plus heaps of exercise, and as much sleep as possible. That way when I’m going out all I have to do is slick on some gloss, and a bit of blush and I am ready to go! Of course the LA sun helps too. – Cat Deeley • I’M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment. – Benjamin Watson • I’m totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It’s stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye. – Jack Osbourne • I’m very involved with PETA – People for Ethical Treatment of Animals – and Greenpeace and a lot of women’s shelter and clothing giveaways. – Pink • In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of (1) a single chemotherapy, (2) multiple chemotherapy, and (3) no treatment at all. No treatment ‘proved a significantly better policy for patients’ survival and for quality of remaining life.’ – Barry Lynes • In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach. – Les Baxter • In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion. – John Dewey • In many developing countries, girls don’t go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing chores, preparing meals, farming. Some cultures think girls and women shouldn’t be educated, and those are very often the places where the treatment of women and girls is the worst. – Laura Bush • In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. – Albert Einstein • In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions. – Charles W. Pickering • In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, ‘Hey, you know what’s a larger habitat?’ THE OCEAN. – Conan O’Brien • In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State. – Patrick J. Kennedy • In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment. – Mahatma Gandhi • In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. – James Hillman • In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to your personal health circumstances. The time will come when, whatever illness you may have, for your body type and health history, there will ‘be an app for that’ to keep you on your best path to wellness. – Sheldon Whitehouse • In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings. – Demi Lovato • Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs. – Xavier Becerra • Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest. – Andrew Weil • It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally speaking it may be said that the least sensitive bacteria are the Gram-negative bacilli, and the most susceptible are the pyogenic cocci … In addition to its possible use in the treatment of bacterial infections penicillin is certainly useful… for its power of inhibiting unwanted microbes in bacterial cultures so that penicillin insensitive bacteria can readily be isolated. – Alexander Fleming • It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda’s intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.- John Yoo • It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don’t know than they are about how they’re going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job. – John Podhoretz • It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we’re providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum. – Craig Venter • It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation’s number one public health problem. – Jim Ramstad • It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment – by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant. – Jonah Lomu • It’s monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment. – Vladimir Zhirinovsky • It’s not at all good when your cancer is ‘palpable’ from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn’t even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. – Christopher Hitchens • It’s so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment. – Naomi Judd • I’ve been in a treatment center for drinkin’. I stayed for two days, then escaped. – Evel Knievel • I’ve been some through some things medically. I’ve seen some things on my brain. But I’ve had some treatment – and I’ve improved. • I’ve gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to. – Mario Lemieux • I’ve never asked for special treatment along the way. And I’m never going to hide the fact that I’m a girl, ever. That’s obvious, isn’t it? – Danica Patrick • John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that’s when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh–. – Bill Maher • Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time. – Tim Ferriss • Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops. – Laura Mennell • Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment. – Christian Nestell Bovee • Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull’s book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine’s inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink! – Dirk Wittenborn • Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine. First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable “I” or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without end. – P.D. Ouspensky • Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before. – Robert D. Hare • Mercedes nursed a special grievance – the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex pregorative, she made their lives unendurable. – Jack London • Modern science passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of observation accumulated, phantoms of the imagination were exorcised, idols of the cave were shattered, trustworthy materials were obtained for logical treatment, and hypotheses by long and careful trial were converted into theories.- Thomas George Bonney • My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery. – Melissa Rivers • My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family’s subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father. – Charles Kuralt • My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I’ve never made a video where I didn’t talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators. – Adria Petty • Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. – Thomas Szasz • Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around. – William Scranton • Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother. – Saint Augustine • Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40 years. It goes back farther, but start from 40 years ago: There’s very little spent on prevention and treatment. There’s a lot on policing, a ton of stuff on border control and a lot on out-of-country operations. And the effect on the availability of drugs is almost undetectable; drug prices don’t change on measures of availability. So there are two possibilities: Either those conducting the Drug War are lunatics, or they have another purpose. – Noam Chomsky • Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It’s about statism. It’s about expanding the government. It’s about control over the population. It is about everything but health care. – Rush Limbaugh • Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate. – James McGreevey • On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease. – Michael C. Burgess • One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by visiting other people’s gardens. We all have a lot to learn and in every new garden there is a chance of finding inspiration – new flowers, different arrangement or fresh treatment for old subjects. Even if it is a garden you know by heart there are twelve months in the year and every month means a different garden, and the discovery of things unexpected all the rest of the year. – Margery Fish • One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. – Rutherford B. Hayes • Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own experience at least) were treating trigger points effectively. What’s more, the burgeoning variety of unproven modalities offered by massage therpaists gave the profession such an aura of flakiness that the elegant science of myofascial pain got unfairly confused with treatments whose results could easily be attributed to the placebo effect. – Clair Davies • Only the few times I’ve been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn’t know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in. – William Eggleston • Ooh, the silent treatment. – Ally Carter • Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves. – Tal Ben-Shahar • Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ‘Go to sleep by yourselves.’ And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help. – Margaret Mead • People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism – even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn’t always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media. – Jonathan Sacks • People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else. – Gloria Allred • Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger. – Bill Bradley • Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. – Laozi • Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness. – Elbert Hubbard • Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ. – Tim LaHaye • Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell. – Eliot Engel • Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology. – Norman Cousins • Somebody gotta tell you this: Cancer kills way more Americans than any Arabic terrorist. We use more money to fight them than finding a cure, So a little kid sits there with his chemo-therapist. Hair falling out while his vital signs weaken… He’ll be dead while his parent are in debt for his treatment. – Crooked i • Sometimes IVs and pills weren’t always the best course of treatment for the injured. Sometimes all you needed was the touch of the one you loved and the sound of their voice and the knowledge that you were home, and that was enough to drag you back from the brink. – J.R. Ward • Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals. – Peter Armitage • Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be removed completely. I heard about Dr Breuss and went to see him….he prescribed the juice treatment….By the time I had completed this juice treatment I felt fit and once again had a good appetite. Despite my 72 years I felt my old self again. – Jurgen Neukirch • The Bible’s emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment. – Billy Graham • The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice… Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other. – William C. Bryant • The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style. – Terry Pratchett • The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about – John Hume • The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. … As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable. – David Rosen • The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey. – Walter Lippmann • The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It’s a demand problem and that is to be dealt with here, and it is not being dealt with. It’s been shown over and over that prevention and treatment are far more cost effective than police action, out-of-country action, border control, and so on. – Noam Chomsky • The Dudleys are going to get the VIP treatment this Sunday– Very Intense Pain! – Jerry Lawler • The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment. – Peter Piot • The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn’t receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it’s been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free. – RZA • The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: ‘Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?’ – Joel Salatin • The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world. – Ted Hughes • The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals. – Ayaan Hirsi Ali • The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore… they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation. – Julian Huxley • The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner… The very prospect of effective treatment seems so remote that it doesn’t even enter into the speculative day-to-day conversation of people engaged in cancer research… New treatments have not produced any detectable decline in the total annual cancer mortality, even for children. – John Cairns • The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment … The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce. – Jean Baudrillard • The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an epic global battle with ruthless savages who seek our destruction, and liberals are feeling sorry for the terrorists. – Ann Coulter • The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition -God knows which -dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road. – Samuel Hahnemann • The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. – Muhammad Iqbal • The pupil’s imagination is ‘schooled’ to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. – Ivan Illich • The real brahmin is the one who: … has crossed beyond duality …knows no this shore, other shore, or both …(is) settled in mind … without inflowing thoughts …is without attachment …endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience …(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body …has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed! – Gautama Buddha • The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. It was like the Nazis treatment of the Jews. – Alec Reid • The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight… [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells… there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. – M. F. K. Fisher • The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster. – Charles Evans Hughes • The survival rate of Dr Burton’s patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public. – Jared Diamond • The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies. – Ishmael Reed • The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history… Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture. – Stephen Harper • The true test of a person’s character is how they treat the people in life that they don’t need. – Lee Corso • The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. – John L. Lewis • There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the laboratory, and there is certainly nothing in the clinics available to patients. – Michael C. Burgess • There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the cause. – Daniel D. Palmer • There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes. – George Bernard Shaw • There is no treatment for adore, but to love far more. – Henry David Thoreau • There’s guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture. – Steven Pinker • These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing happens without communication, treatment based on evidence of outcome, and what used to be called a good bedside manner. – Marni Jackson • They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor. – Bob Marley • They have – they do still hit me occasionally, and it’s an overwhelming grief for what – even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible. – Lynn Redgrave • This (Coley’s toxins) is really an effective treatment and it an OUTRAGEOUS crime of the century that we at MSK were able to cure cancer a 100 years ago that they can’t cure today. – Ralph W. Moss • Those of us who have gone through breast cancer treatment will say “yes” ..we absolutely need to focus on prevention. I never want my daughter to go through what I have gone through…never. – Ravida Din • Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain. – C. S. Lewis • To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. – James Boswell • To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right. – Andrej Pejic • To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness. – Dalai Lama • To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors). – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles. – Mike Pence • To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women. – Mary Ann Glendon • To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution. – Jiddu Krishnamurti • To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished. – Friedrich Nietzsche • Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks. – Lucy Powell • Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude’s are treated without regard for the family’s ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital. – Marlo Thomas • Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide – all can be traced easily to too many people. – Paul R. Ehrlich • Train your mind to see in all people, what they do not see in themselves. Begin to treat every person you come in contact with as the most important person in the world. Look at them with new awareness. – Bob Proctor • Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same. – Deborah Tannen • Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders provides clinicians with essential guidelines to treat patients in the era of managed care. Seven psychiatric disorders are described and conceptualized in cognitive-behavioral terms. The authors then provided an unusually clear, reader-friendly description of how to assess and treat each disorder with illustrative case examples, and patient forms and handouts. It should prove very useful for clinicians or clinicians-in-training who want to learn how to conduct short-term treatment through an empirically validated approach. – Judith S. Beck

• Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. – Bill Gates • Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can’t escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists. – Joseph Brodsky • U.N. officials said today they desperately need $7 billion to help people cope with disasters, but they’re having a hard time getting people to send rescue money. Here’s what the UN should do: Invest in bad mortgages, run a bank into the ground, give yourself a bonus, get some spa treatments and, in no time, the government will send you $750 billion. – Jay Leno • Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries. – Nathan Deal • We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we’d custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one’s individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you’ve probably never done before. – David Agus • We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment. – Stephen J. Pasierb • We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans. – Louise Slaughter • We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also learned that the parents have been our best investigators in looking for both causes of autism and for treatments. – Dan Burton • We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner – by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership. – Theodore C. Sorensen • We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons. – Gene Wolfe • We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation. – Robert Winston • We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master. – Florence Nightingale • We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the ‘Two Fluids’ theory. Their results, however, have been deduced entirely from data which can be proved by experiment, and which must therefore be true, whether we adopt the theory of two fluids or not. The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory. – James Clerk Maxwell • What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? – Diane Setterfield • What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time. – John P. Walters • When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was ‘The Graduate’ or ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ or ‘Dead Poet’s Society,’ they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That’s what made them resonate with me. – Stephen Chbosky • When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live. – Regina Brett • When you get new people in, you’re going to have a breath of fresh air and there’s going to be a window when people will decide what direction to go. It’ll be determined by outside events, by the personalities that occupy those positions, and by the treatment they receive both from the press and the public, of the honeymoon period. – Ted Gup • When you think of the costs of cancer care, one can imagine that drugs like checkpoint blockers or transfer of these T lymphocytes are actually cost-saving, just as treatments for hepatitis C, while expensive, overall save money by preventing hepatitis and hep – hepatocarcinoma in patients. – Laurie Glimcher • Whenever you take a subject you’re obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you’re converting it into work units that need to be completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant application, a bunch of forms to be filled out, a shooting schedule, casting sessions, auditions, shooting, editing, music compositions, the film festival circuit, interviews even. And by the time you’ve finished the process you’re so sick and tired by something that was once very precious to you that you’re done with it. – Guy Maddin • While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment. – Mark Udall • Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. – Ayn Rand • Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? – Franz Schubert • With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment. – James Cook • Yeah, in every film that I’ve been lucky enough to do with Tim, there’s always some form of torture, and the nails were Tim’s idea. They were the length of the fingers and stuff, but it was okay because I had a troop of people who would help me go to the bathroom. They had to have treatment afterwards but they’re okay now. That is true. – Johnny Depp • Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision I have continued to use both medications. – Sylvester Stallone • Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again. – Hermann Hesse • You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this. – Leon Brown

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