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Kismit

Jan 30 2004, 10:19 AM

I had no I dea where to put this , only I really wanted to put something somewhere...
Janet Frame, 79, Writer Who Explored Madness, Dies
By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Published: January 30, 2004

Reuters, 2002
Janet Frame

Janet Frame, whose vividly romantic explorations of madness and language in novels, poetry and autobiography propelled her to worldwide attention, died yesterday in Dunedin, New Zealand. She was 79.

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QUOTE (Janet Frame in her autobiography)

"Oh why had they robbed me of my schizophrenia, which had been the answer to all my misgivings about myself?"

Thank you to a lady who showed us that even in the depths of suffering we can find a little gold ....

mowo

Jan 30 2004, 10:44 AM

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She was about to have a lobotomy when a hospital official read that she had won a literary prize. She was released.

Scary, there is a fine line between genius and insane...

Kismit

Feb 1 2004, 08:14 PM

Ahh yes Labotomies where quite common practice untill recently . I believe Rosemary Kennedy , the Aunt of J.F.K. was institutionalised after a failed labotomy . Although I'm not quite sure how one could be viewed as succesfull.

<bleeding_heart>

Feb 1 2004, 10:41 PM

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Although I'm not quite sure how one could be viewed as succesfull.

You drool less than your body weight in a day ??

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