Regeneration

quotes

Burns window

A simple rattling of a branch along the window caused “Burns to bite his lip to stop himself from crying out” due to it sounding like machine gun fire

Burns reliving experience

“Nightly, he relieved the experience and from every nightmare he awoke vomiting.”

Andersons haemophobia episode

When Rivers attends Anderson's room after his traumatic haemophobia episode, he “found Anderson huddled in a foetal position, in a corner by the window, teeth chattering, a dark stain spreading across the front of his pajamas.”

Energy into forgetting

The average patient at Craiglockhart spends a “considerable amount of energy to the task of forgetting whatever traumatic events precipitated his neurosis.”

Prior talking doesn’t help

Prior “No. I don’t think talking helps. It just churns things up and makes them seem more real.”

Burns analogy

Burns “where a prematurely aged man and a fossilized school boy seemed to exist side by side.”

rivers treatment

“Rivers’ treatment sometimes consisted simply of encouraging the patient to abandon his hopeless attempt to forget”

Sassoon poetry

“All the anger and grief now went into the poetry.”

Sassoon sheets

“It was still, after all these weeks, pure joy to go to bed in white sheets and know that he would wake.” Sassoon”

Burns experience

What had happened to him was so vile, so disgusting, that Rivers could find no redeeming feature.”

Burns extremity

“The sheer extremity of [Burns’] suffering set him apart from the rest,”

Sassoon prolonged

“because I believe the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.” Sassoon

Men being sacrificed

“against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.”

Sausage machine

“Back to the sausage machine” - Sassoon describing being cured to be sent back

Society young

“A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance. “ rivers

under orders

“The maddest thing I ever did was done under orders.” sassoon

graves about sassoons men

“And he loves them. Being separated from them would kill him.” graves

rivers duty

“It's his duty to return and my duty to ensure he does.” rivers

anderson emasculating

“I suppose it is possible someone might find being locked up in a loony bin a fairly emasculating experience?” Anderson, 39

trained to identify

“They’d been trained to identify emotional repression as the essence of manliness.” 65

not men

“Men who broke down, or cried, or admitted to feeling fear, were sissies, weaklings, failures. Not men.” 65-66

prior dad bullet

“He’d get a damn sight more sympathy from me if he had a bullet up his arse.” Mr. Prior, 78

Prior nanny goat

“It was the closest Prior could come to asking for physical contact. Rivers was reminded of the nanny goat”

prior to rivers

“You will never make me feel” prior to rivers

craiglockhart hallways

“its like a trench without a sky”