“The pamphlet described in great detail a medical procedure that you called mental ventilation, that is, the drilling of holes in the skulls of the sick to let the evil spirits out.”
I wrote about this subject previously: https://lindypratch.blogspot.co.nz/2017/10/a-year-of-literary-trepanations.html?...
Will 2018 be another year of literary trepanations?
jpmcwisemorgan What if you read a book that served the purpose of trepanation? It wouldn‘t be about it or even mention it but the act of reading it would release “evil spirits”, whatever you took that to mean? 6y
Lindy @jpmcwisemorgan Oooo! I like the way you think. 😉 6y
jpmcwisemorgan I think you should make this a thing on Litsy, complete with a #trepanation tag (probably something snazzier than that, though). You could ask people to pick their top one or two books or however many, and you could still blog about it that way too! 6y
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Lindy @jpmcwisemorgan Ha! Yes, I will think about it. It sounds like #bibliotherapy but #trepanation is a more exotic way of looking at it. 😀 6y
jpmcwisemorgan I like #mentalventilation too. 6y
Lindy @jpmcwisemorgan 👍👍 6y
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