Who is worse off? This poor fellow who is desperately neurotic to the point of being amnesic, and wandering in and out of fugues, as bad off as he was? Or the so-called well-adjusted, productive businessman, and so forth, who is clinically sane by the same standards?

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Cora gave her shoulders a rebellious toss. I'm sick of always getting oysters; I'd sooner come out with you. Bradly let that go. You had enough money this week without getting oysters, didn't you?

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