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To explain the synchronicity of vision, he simply offered, "Well, my dear, I really can see through your eyes". Slowly, she began to accept that it might be true, even though they had never met.
by Monkey's Dad June 16, 2022
Get the through your eyes mug.She was tuned to CNN, he to Fox News. She believed you could not be too careful. He believed it was a liberal hoax. Their tiny apartment had become a Handwashing vs Brainwashing battlefield.
by Monkey's Dad April 5, 2020
Get the Handwashing vs Brainwashing mug.A large pictorial representation of a sufferer's inner life, encircling the patient and often having real objects - ie; other people, as a foreground.
No matter how clearly her shrink explained that it was only a Psychlorama, the patient increasingly believed that what she was seeing was the actual world.
by Monkey's Dad October 16, 2019
Get the Psychlorama mug.A variant of psychosis. An episode of psychic inflammation. A brief if intense appearance of being totally off-the-wall psychotic.
His face reddened, his eyes and neck tendons bulging, he screamed into her astonished face, "Don't call me psychotic! Because that makes me crazy. I'm just psychitic! It's psychitis! ... Oh yeah??!! Look it up in Urban Dictionary!
by Monkey's Dad September 23, 2022
Get the Psychitis mug.A phrase with fresh meaning in 2020, when people all over the world are commanded by law to stay far away from each other, when the innocent presence of another human can cause your death.
The line is from Jean-Paul Sartre's 1944 play 'No Exit".
The line is from Jean-Paul Sartre's 1944 play 'No Exit".
Having been friendly and gregarious all his life, he was now forced to acknowledge that, in the present moment, hell is other people.
by Monkey's Dad April 3, 2020
Get the Hell is other people mug.A newly-expanded distance between oneself and another person, which we yearn to have violated and honored at the same time.
Her exploded personal space had gone from a few inches to the government-mandated six-foot radius and it felt like an invisible prison cell.
by Monkey's Dad March 23, 2020
Get the exploded personal space mug.The lyrics to his song "Her Town Too" have taken on a new edge in the age of coronavirus:
"She's been afraid to go out
She's afraid of the knock on her door"
"She's been afraid to go out
She's afraid of the knock on her door"
Lying in bed, fearful of leaving her apartment, waiting for a stranger to deliver her dinner, the song came up.
'It's the James Taylor Prophecy', she thought, 'I'm afraid to go out, I'm afraid of the knock on my door, always a shade of a doubt, I can never be sure, who comes to call. Maybe the friend of a friend of a friend. Anyone at all. Anything but nothing again.'
'It's the James Taylor Prophecy', she thought, 'I'm afraid to go out, I'm afraid of the knock on my door, always a shade of a doubt, I can never be sure, who comes to call. Maybe the friend of a friend of a friend. Anyone at all. Anything but nothing again.'
by Monkey's Dad March 28, 2020
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