NPPF - preliminary

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 9 07:47:53 CDT 2003


--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> There is reason to believe Hazel suffers from some sort of mental illness:
the Shades believed their daughter's poltergeist incident was "an outward
extension or expulsion of insanity," but never had it diagnosed because they
disliked "modern voodoo-psychiatry" (p. 166).  (Granted this comes from
Kinbote....)

Right.  It's not mentioned by Shade, but this might be the underlying reason. 
I'll have to read that part again.

DM

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