A complex
psychiatric condition affecting as many as 68 million
American women over the age of 19 and characterized by rapid a decline in thought, speech and behavioral patterns, with exacerbations and remissions occurring in close concert with sufferers'
menstrual periods.
When Bill saw normally dignified non-demonstrative Heloise screeching curses at the coterie of shitty but
otherwise harmless musicians gathered in the public sewer known as the
Pearl Street Mall, he was
dumbfounded.
"Her?" he said to Ricardo.
Bill's friend leaned in close. "Twautism," he said in grave, conspiratorial tones. "Every goddamn month around this time, you'd swear she'd just eaten a box of thermometers."