Pathological states can induce

[LilKim]

abnormal strength. Accelerated motor performance. Now, for example, say a 90 pound woman sees her child pinned under the wheel of a truck. Runs out and lifts the wheels a half a foot up off the ground - you've heard the story - same thing here. Same principle, I mean.

So what's wrong with her?

We still think the temporal lobe.

Oh what are you talking about, for Chrissakes? Did you see her or not? She's acting like she's fucking out of her mind, psychotic, like a... split personality or...

There haven't been more than a hundred authentic cases of so-called split personality. Now I know the temptation is to leap to psychiatry. But any reasonable psychiatrist would exhaust the somatic possibilities first.

So, what's next?

A pneumoencephalogram, I would think. Pin down that lesion. It will involve another spinal.

Oh, Christ.

What we missed in the EEG and the arteriograms could conceivably turn up there. At least, it would eliminate certain other possibilities.

[LilKim]

1. Is there someone inside you?

Sometimes.

Who is it?

I don't know.

Is it Captain Howdy?

I don't know.

If I ask him to tell me, will you let him answer?

No.

Why not?

I'm afraid.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. A Pneumoencephalogram?

I didn't think anyone did them any more. They're rumored to be a mite painful, and have limited diagnostic use.

A PET scan would probably be a better choice for this. A lot of research is being done, even as we speak ...

--p!

[LilKim]

3. You're sorry

Christ, eighty-eight doctors and all you can tell me is all of your bullshit...

[LilKim]

4. Tell me, was it public

relations you did for the Gestapo or community relations?

I'm Swiss!

Oh, of course. And you never went bowling with Goebels before either, I suppose? Nazi bastard.

[LilKim]

5. Hi, Mom.

What did you do today?

Um... stuff.

What kind of stuff?

Well, me and Sharon played a game in the backyard, and we had a picnic down by the river. Mom, you should have seen this man came along on this beautiful grey horse. Wasn't it pretty?

Really, what kind was it a mare or gelding?

Think it was a gelding. It was grey. Oh, it was so beautiful, the guy let me ride it all around. It was so nice. Oh, I loved it. Oh, Mom can't we get a horse?

Well, not while we're in Washington.

[LilKim]

6. Well give me an example

like what specifically did she say?

Specifically, she advised me to keep my fingers away from her goddamed cunt.

[LilKim]

7. Mirabile dictu, don't you agree?

You speak Latin?

Ego te absolvo.

Quod nomen mihi est?

Bon Jour.

Quod nomen mihi est?

La plume de ma tante.

[LilKim]

8. Well, it's a symptom of a type of disturbance

in the chemico-electrical activity of the brain. In the case of your daughter in the temperal lobe,up here in the lateral part of the brain.It's rare, but it does cause bizarre hallucinations and usually just before a convulsion.

Convulsion?

The shaking of the bed, that's doubtless due to musuclar spasms.

Oh no, that was no spasm.I got on the bed,the whole bed was thumping and rising off the floor and shaking.The whole thing,with me on it!

The problem with your daughter is not her bed, it's her brain.

So,what causes this?

Lesion, lesion in the temperal lobe.It's a kind of seizure disorder.
Look doc, I really don't understand how her whole personality could change.

The temperal lobe is very common. Could last for days, even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive or even criminal behaviour.

Hey do me a favour will ya'.Tell me something good.

Don't be alarmed. If it's a lesion in a way she's fortunate. All we have to do is remove the scar.

[LilKim]

9. Father, could you

help an old altar boy? I'm Cat'lick.