Word: cainsmarsh
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...explains to him that Finchatton's story is all a yarn, but symbolically true: "The realities that are overwhelming him are so monstrous and frightful that he has to transform them into this fairy tale. . . ." The doctor alarms George even further by shouting that Finchatton is right: Cainsmarsh is everywhere, and the spirit of the animal cave man is still poisoning the air with fear. "What I tell you is the monstrous reality. The brute has been marking time and dreaming of a progress it has failed to make. Any archeologist will tell you as much; modern...
...keeping aloof from any sort of unpleasantness. At a French health resort George meets a Dr. Finchatton, an intense fellow who has come there for treatment of his badly jangled nerves. Finchatton spins George a ghostly yarn: he had had a country practice in England in a place called Cainsmarsh, just the kind of quiet district he wanted. Before he had been there very long, the place began to get on his nerves. He noticed that everyone seemed to be afraid: no one would go out after dark, everyone distrusted and feared his neighbor, took drugs...
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