A Sudden Shaft of Foreboding
“No wonder isolation tanks used to work so well as punishment.” she said to her partner. He went to joke and sensing the nuance of antipathy let it go. He nodded sternly. “Certainly abandonment and separation have powerful impact.” Annie was now involuntarily glued to this “creature” whose presence had befriended her. Her interaction with it was not voluntary but compulsively participatory. She had been starved of all sensory stimulation for an extended period of time and this brought with it a... Sign in to see full entry.