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Portrait in Death Written by J.D.Robb(a.k.a Nora Roberts)Book reveiw contributed by Picard san, Apr. 5, 03

This is the 16th volume of Death series.

This book deals with romance just as well as other Robert's books
but we also enjoy the parts of SF and mystery.
The era is around 2050 and the place is New York. One of protagonists
is an officer of NYPD, homicide section. That sounds very excitinig,
isnt' it?

Now, Roarke, one of main character, is informed of his true mother.
Until then he knew she had abandoned him and walked away from his
life. He has believed it since! But some councelor, having the same
origin as he, Ireland, told him about his true mother, who loved him
in spite of being bruised by her husband and killed by him.
What, and who was his mother who he belived he hated so much and
abandoned him as he was a little child. His belief and his life
seemed to fall apart from under his feet.

Roarke now has been married to Eve for more than one year, but
he cannot, or will not talk to her about his mother. He will try
to deal the fact on his own and even reject Eve, literally shuttiing
out. Eve feels hurt like being slapped her cheek. For Eve, having
raped by her own father and killed him, he is the only person
she comletely relys on. Will she be able to endure the rejection?
Anyway, what is the most intriguing is the male reaction he took.
I remember making some decision without consulting my spouse, which
aroused strong repulsion from her.

What about the mystery part? There appeared a serial muderer in
this book, of course. This time, the criminal uses a gadget named
imager or something like that, kind of camera in the future.
He/she catches the moment of the victims, bright and innocent moment.
He/she thinks he/she absorbs the essence of the glow by killing them,
who the criminal insists will live for ever in him/her. Criminal's
logic, very plausible.

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LOVE(Excerpt from[ 001422 ]by YAM san Apr.2,03)
　
I called love something unnamable, communication between human beings.
Yes, kind of sym=pathy, meaning sharing a sense.
However, drama or novel presenting such feeling and experiencing will not substitute a real event we daily encounter, which is as I said inescapable. We can escape horrible scene by shutting our eyes or offing the theater, turning off the TV, closing the book.

Real encounter on his/her body or their relatives will not present a way to escape. It's not virtual but real. It happens not on the stage but in the real world on your real body and sense.
In an event we lose a child, or husband or relatives in a war or large earthquake or murder, we can't escape it. There are many types of inescapable conditions. Some are remedied (healed) others not.

Time (i.e. losing memory) is a great element of healing, of course. That means the tragedy relates with some condition of mind. One way is to recover themselves is to state what happened on them by their own words. Through these processes, what happened in their mind is interested and described in many books. (I don't know such books but surely there are)

If unsuccessful to recover, they shall accept unhappy life through the life, or take a suicide in some case, which is not rare as we see. Physical handicap seems to be the severest unhappiness as far as I know and recognize. Experience of Hellen Keller, or Nakamura Hisako(I introduced yesterday, no arms no legs) is therefore precious for me. To live in the hardship at least spiritually, optimism is only or last way to live in.
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Psychotherapy(Excerpt from [001416] by naoko san)Apr.1,003

Thank you yam san.

I've read the glossary and I remember a conversation with my friend.
My friend is studying psychology to be a school psychotherapist.

I used to have a doubt to a certain treatment of posttraumatic disorder. This method is letting patients relive memories of traumatic events with therapists.

Yam san, you were the person who mentioned it about a 9.11 survivor's treatment. Do you remember it?
I felt it too cruel to force survivors to remember the event so vividly. But my friend said to me that this method works very well if the therapist has a true confidence of the client .

A human defeated by a cruel experience can overcome it when he/she challenges it again with a sincere companion.

Usually a man does not kill his father or his mother, his mate or his daughter, but almost all human have their individual traumatic memories. If a person has no such memory, then at least he / she has a possibility of get one of them in the future.

Really, a spectator lives the tragedy with actors and other spectators.
We read tragedies and relive traumatic stories to get a therapeutic effect.
Only one point we need to beware is to select good therapeutic-Good writers and good co-readers!

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think(Excerpt from [001412] by YAM san)Apr.1,03

Thinking deep this relieves a man who is sad, reaching some condition, we
call it "catharsis", meaning purification in Greek.

Catharsis comes in a sense when he/she opens some unopened mind's door for him/her.
As time passes, he/she forgets, i.e. closing the door, and opens another door.
Having many mind's doors is called experience, meaning walking long ways and know something about us.

Hellen Keller probably opened a door abruptly at the "special" day, every one passed gradually it unnoticeably.

Door to understand the meaning of meanings, a fact that the world is composed of words.

I once proposed a simplified verb inflection,
present, past, past-particle, in some english teacher's ML,
US based but attended by worldwide teachers.
All verbs shall have the regular form of change:

Some woman sniffed me, saying you better to simplify Japanese
language first.
Some kind woman personally gave me a mail, saying that sniffing woman was
so unkind and arrogant. She sent me a used book written by a great Grammar Theorist, Jespersen.

I have his book, Principle of English Grammar, translation and published by Iwanami Shoten. It is a good book. Some person reads Jespersen's book to calm his mind.