things that stick

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Some things just stick, it seems, but why they stick is hard to say.

Once upon a time, as a teenager, I pulled a book off a library shelf. It was called "Language and Schizophrenia." A number of case studies dotted the pages and among them was a patient who was quoted as saying:

The air is still here, the air between the things in the room. But the things themselves are no longer here.

Like a snippet of melody, the words stick.
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