Marley sat in the coffee-house crying into her handbag, which there within contained hundreds of little slips of paper that had kept appearing – all telling her not to worry and that somehow this would get fixed.
She had been, it seemed, infected with a bout of viral materialism and the main thing now was to be careful not to overeat or overly panic. Hopefully it would pass in a day or so.
Materialism is not dissimilar to dementia - an apoplexy of the spiritual recall. The faculties of imagination and precognition are restricted, whilst the sense of the eternal is reduced down to just momentary concerns. A very bad case of it can result in atheistic behaviours - and, at its absolute worst, it can manifest a deathly condition of unrest, chronic disbelief with relentless argumentativeness.
Like any other atrophy or paralysis, the sufferer needs to exercise what little perception they have left. Puck had given Marley a list of exercises, although her heart just was not in doing them - in fact, if anything, she seemed a little ungrateful every time he reminded her.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
Like any other atrophy or paralysis, the sufferer needs to exercise what little perception they have left. Puck had given Marley a list of exercises, although her heart just was not in doing them - in fact, if anything, she seemed a little ungrateful every time he reminded her.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
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