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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
·
W. N. P. Barbellion
288
December
1.
I
believe
I
am
good
for
another
12
months
without
abnormal
worries.
Just
now,
of
course,
the
Slug
ain't
exactly
on
the
thorn--on
the
cabbage
in
fact
as
E----
suggested.
The
Grasshopper
is
much
of
a
burden
and
the
voice
of
the
Turtle
has
gone
from
my
land
(where
did
all
these
Bible
phrases
come
from?).
The
first
bark
of
the
Wolf
(God
save
us,
'tis
all
the
Animal
Kingdom
sliding
down
my
penholder)
was
heard
with
the
reduction
in
her
work
to-day,
and
I
suspect
there's
worse
to
come
with
a
sovereign
already
only
worth
12s.
6d.
December
4.
The
Baby
touch
is
the
most
harrowing
of
all.
If
we
were
childless
we
should
be
merely
unfortunate,
but
an
infant....
December
11.
Am
receiving
ionisation
treatment
from
an
electrical
therapeutist--a
quack!
He
is
a
sort
of
electrician--still,
if
he
mends
my
bells
I'll
kiss
his
boots.
As
for
----,
he
is
no
better
than
a
byreman,
and
I
call
him
Hodge.
This
is
not
the
first
time
I
have
felt
driven
to
act
behind
the
back
of
the
Profession.
In
1912,
being
desperate,
and
M----
worse
than
a
headache,
I
greedily
and
credulously
sucked
in
the
advice
of
my
boarding-house
proprietor
and
went
to
see
a
homœopathist
in
Finsbury
Circus.
He
proved
to
be
a
charlatan
at
10s.
6d.
a
time,
and
tho'
I
realised
it
at
once,
I
religiously
travelled
about
for
a
month
or
more
with
tinctures
and
drop-bottle.
I
could
write
a
book
on
the
Doctors
I
have
known
and
the
blunders
they
have
made
about
me....
The
therapeutist
took
me
for
33.
I
feel
63.
I
am
27.
What
a
wreck
I
am,
and....
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