Word: duncanford
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...novel's guinea pig hero is Richard Terrell, a peacetime chemical engineer and wartime captain in the British army. An Afrika Korps stick grenade sends him into amnesia for ten days and lands him at Duncanford, "the best-run nuthouse in England." There Dick runs the gantlet of tranquillizing drugs, insulin and electric shock treatments and doubletalk ("idealization of the phantasmal reorientation") from one of the "headshrinkers." After two years or so, Dick is released with a nervous tic behind his left ear, and the vaguely damning words "constitutional inferiority" stamped on his army discharge papers. His wife...
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