It's very weird to have a skull full of poison
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A tale of ten strangenesses
Photo cred: my dad Disclaimer: I’m not the kind of psychologist who treats people. These are just things that happened to me. In October 2020, I began to feel very, very bad. It was a mental bad, a bad in my head. I don’t know how to explain what I felt other than this: in the book Dune, there’s a scene where a nun comes to test the protagonist, a kid named Paul. She shows him a box and tells him to put his hand inside it. “What’s in the box?” he asks. “Pain,” she says. She cranks up the pain-box and it’s Paul’s job not to take his hand out, or the nun will kill him. (I went to Catholic…
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