“What is the sense of ruining my head and erasing my memory, which is my capital, and putting me out of business? It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient. It's a bum turn, Hotch, terrible.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Pt. 4, Ch. 14 after receiving electric shock therapy for depression
Papa Hemingway (1966)

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