[lit-ideas] Re: FW: Six Characters in Search of an Author

US:
Superstitious behaviour works every time. I used to say the Lord's Prayer just under my breath whenever my kids woke at night. believed (still do) that my chanting put them magically back to sleep.

I'm sure I've recounted here my habit of praying the Hail Mary over and over very rapidly whenever I feel an attack of panic. Works everytime for me. And if I weren't an atheist, I'd say it was proof of Catholic dogma. As a young person I used to pray the rosary faithfully -- I was once a very different person, y'all -- and the comfort I once found in faith I've found is transferable through blind ritual. Carol K once remarked how little attention was paid to verbal OCD as for example in prayer. Well, I've paid plenty of attention to it, not in studying it but in practicing it and I thank the missing God for my praying OCD, it's got me through a lot of dangerous anxieties.

Mike Geary
Memphis




----- Original Message ----- From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: FW: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Superstitious behaviour works every time. I used to say the Lord's Prayer just under my breath whenever my kids woke at night. believed (still do) that my chanting put them magically back to sleep. And it was the chanting...I didn't have to mean it...just mouth the words...incantatory...magic...
Ursula

Andy Amago wrote:

I used to use him to get to sleep a gazillion years ago. When I couldn't
get to sleep, in my mind I'd sing I was a lineman for the county ... Worked
every time. I have this vague idea I heard him interviewed once. A
dysfunctional person, like everybody. I'm wearing out this word
dysfunctional. Now I'm sure people read my posts when they can't get to
sleep. That's because I'm dysfunctional. That's why I think that.


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