Barnhouse

I don't know about a ray gun, but Kurt Vonnegut's story "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" gets at the same essential idea.

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From September 1953 until February 1963 Barnhouse and Plath stayed in more or less constant contact either by mail or by telephone.

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During those years Plath wrote Barnhouse long, revealing letters.

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From September 1953 until February 1963 Barnhouse and Plath stayed in more or less constant contact either by mail or by telephone.

SYLVIA AND RUTH TEV 2004

During those years Plath wrote Barnhouse long, revealing letters.

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Taking a break from puffing on her Nat Sherman cigarettes during an outdoor interview on the cobbled Main Street in Nantucket, Barnhouse joined me for lunch at a restaurant called Arno's that featured a "Healthy Beginnings" menu.

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When Plath first arrived, Barnhouse decided to supplement psychotherapy with insulin-shock treatment, which not only failed to address the patient's apathy but caused her face to bloat up and bruise, spoiling her natural beauty and compounding her crisis of self-doubt.

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"I got her to draw things first, and then I had gotten her to talk, which was already something," Barnhouse told me.

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Years after her release from McLean, Plath continued to consult with Barnhouse, and in 1959 she confessed in her journal, "RB has become my mother."

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When I interviewed Barnhouse, more than thirty years later (she has since died), it was easy to appreciate the spirit that had animated Plath.

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