-"She walks around with that same doll smile crimped between her chin and her nose and that same calm whir coming from her eyes, but down inside of her she's as tense as steel."

10/26

2nd Journal Entry:

-"The ward hums the way I heard a cotton mill hum once when the football team played a high school in California."

3rd Journal Entry:

-"They had been talking like tourists from the East who figure you've got to talk to Indians so they'll understand."

-"If somebody' d of come and and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year-old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they'd of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons."

≥Don`t overlook the possibility that this man might be feigning psychosis to escape the drudgery of the work farm

≥Maybe after that take him to the electroencephalograph and check his head- we may find evidence of a need for barn work.≤

≥Good morning, Billy; I saw your mother on the way in, she told me to be sure to tell you she thought of you all the time and knew you wouldn`t disappoint her.≤

  ≥Heπs making sure none of the staff see him bothered by anything; he knows that thereπs no better way in the world to aggravate somebody whoπs trying to make it hard for you than by acting like youπre not bothered