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Sleeping and breaking the brain 2008-03-16 02:26:33

Conspire with me to rebel against the world

If you don’t live by convention, you have to find another way. If you don’t believe in God, you have to make your own decisions. Unfortunately, most mortals have the courage and lack of wisdom. If they are not careful, they will go astray and become lunatics. It's easy to be a lunatic, as long as you can deceive yourself, and there are many lunatic people in the lunatic asylum, like you, who believe that the problem is the world and not themselves. They refuse to wake up, thinking that what they believe is the truth, The world is bad and they prefer what they imagine to be real, so they will rebel against the world with you.

That's why in "The Broken Girl", Susanna, who is not crazy, is like a duck to water in a lunatic asylum. It was 1967, and she had lost her purpose in life after graduating from high school. She was not as busy going to college as others, and she had only one vague ideal for the future: writing. She had an affair with her classmate's father, was passive and world-weary, never quit smoking, and always fantasized about her own death. After being rescued by drinking 50 aspirin with vodka, he was asked to go to a mental hospital to "take a break". Here she made many friends: Polly, who was disfigured by self-immolation when she was a child, Daisy, who was sexually abused by her biological father, Georgina, a liar who was obsessed with the fairy tale "The Wizard of Oz", and so on. Of course, the most important thing was the leader of this group of crazy girls. Sociopath Lisa. She's charismatic, wild, and the queen of lunatics. She became Susanna's best friend.

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  • Lisa: So, have you had your first Melvin yet?

    Susanna: Who's that?

    Lisa: Bald guy with a little pecker and a fat wife. You're ther-rapist, sweet pea. Unless, ah... unless they're givin' you shocks. Or, God forbid lettin' you out. Then you get to see the great wonderful Dr. Dyke.

    Margie: She means Dr. Wick.

    Susanna: Oh, I've been in his office but I haven't met him yet.

    M.G.: He's a she. Dr. Wick's a girl.

    Lisa: That's right, M.G. Wick's a chick.

    M.G.: Wick's a chick.

    Lisa: Hence the nickname.

  • Georgina: Lisa, is Daisy really getting out?

    Lisa: Yeah, she coughed up a big one.

    Susanna: But how could - I mean she's... *insane*.

    Lisa: Yeah, well that's what ther-rape-me's all about. That's why fuckin' Freud's picture's on every shrink's wall. He created a fuckin' industry. You lie down, you confess your secrets and you're saved. Ca-ching! The more you confess, the more they think about settin' you free.

    Susanna: But what if you don't have a secret?

    Lisa: Then you're a lifer, like me.