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The Second Coming Study Guide

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by Walker Percy
About 65 pages (19,613 words)
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"Lately he remembered everything. His symptom, if it was a symptom, as the opposite of amnesia, a condition as far as I know unnamed by medical science." (Part 1, Chapter 1, Section 1, p. 9)

"Date: October 15

"Place: Room 212, Closed Wing, Valleyhead Sanatorium

"Below, printed in capital letters and underlined, was the following:

"instructions from myself to myself

"What followed was written in her ordinary script:

"As I write this to you, I don't remember everything but I remember more than you will remember when you read this. You remember nothing now, do you? I know this from experience. Electroshock knocks out memory for a while. I don't feel bad. To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure I'm sick. But they think I'm worse because I refuse to talk in group (because there is nothing to say) and.....

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