Sometimes Bone King cannot go through doors. He has no physical impairment, but at times his brain and muscles simply can’t recall how to walk him through them. Perhaps it has something to do with his being distracted thinking about grammar and etymology all the time, or maybe it’s anxiety that his wife is having an affair with the yardman. But then renowned neurologist Arthur Limongello offers a diagnosis as peculiar as the ailment: Bone’s self is starting to dislodge from his brain. The treatment is a series of therapeutic tasks; Bone must compliment a stranger each day, do good deeds without being asked, and remind himself each morning, that “Today is a good day!”But first, as a temporary measure, he also suggests Bone simply try to dance through the doorways. And for a time, Bone’s square dancing, the only kind of dance he knows how to do, seems to more or less work.Bone’s condition begins to improve, but then his wife leaves him, and after a harrowing ordeal during which he nearly loses his life, Bone makes an astounding discovery about the man who has been calling himself Dr. Limongello. Is Limongello’s remedy the product of a deranged imagination or the cure for a modern epidemic threatening the very self?
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Man Martin. The Lemon Jell-O Syndrome
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phatic communication: Social language stripped of content, coined by Malinowski in The Meaning of Meaning. For example, in the exchange “How’s it going?” “Great, how’re you?” no information is sought or given, question and response being ritualized. So prevalent is phatic communication that many people, talking nearly nonstop all their lives—pausing only to chew, swallow, use the bathroom, sleep, go into comas, and die—are buried, having said almost nothing. psychiatrist: From the French psychiatrie, first used in 1890 to replace the uneuphonious “mad doctor.” Literally, “healer of the soul,” from Greek iatreia, “heal,” and psykhe, “soul” or “butterfly.” We can see the butterfly’s wings in the Greek letter psi (Ψ)
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For my agent Sorche
for her tireless efforts and faith in me
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Then, to Bone’s horror, Cash did offer.
“Let me see what I can do with that thing,” Cash said, dropping his voice into the baritone of someone wise and helpful taking charge, and with a pull, he brought the mower shuddering and puttering to life. “Let’s adjust the choke,” Cash said, and pushed a lever until the mower sounded a little less tubercular.
