PAGE 20â€" WA noon was ) to McLean Hospiâ€" tal. She was i as "borderline personality disorder" and, the help of a lawyer, gets acceutoha'lug 1967. Copies of these Maam'-bq:flhcmn.lbs.iswd known for those it has . including poets Syivia Plath and Robert Lowell and â€"singers Ray Charles and James Taylor. Its high staffâ€"toâ€"patient ratio does not come cheap but the security necâ€" essary to prevent suicides and confine those who are "acting out" makes for prisor+ike conditions. The book, at times funny, at times frightening, raises questions about the incarceration of those society or its doctors consider deviant. For the 16 months that Susanna was in the hospital, her life was on hold. She had little conâ€" tact with her parents (her father was director of Advanced Study at Princeton}. She makes friends with the other girls in her ward, some more "crazy" than others. The dialogue of their dormiâ€" tory life is recreated with the ring of truth. A nurse takes her out to have an abscessed tooth removed. She.gets into an argument with the dentist demanding to know how much time she was ‘out‘ with the anaeshetic, how much of her life she had lost. | recall visiting a friend who was a patient at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in the early ‘70s. She was the same age as Susanna, and probably was having trouble filtering all the messages drugs, were helping her. in a chapter on Mind vs. Brain, Kaysen elucidates the realm of false dence. Mind you, i was still shy once I stepped off the stage and out of that role as a magician." Now, when he‘s not at his day job (in computer systems with the Mutual Group), Stringer can be found performing, not only at Belamy‘s but at banquets, wedding and corporate parties. And when he‘s not working or performing, he‘s perâ€" fecting his talent. The learning process is ongoing with an art like Natural Sound Shops Waterloo & Kitchener Everything is priced to move! l RED TAG SALE â€" DON‘T MISS OUR Big V Crusader and M & M Good Guy Day sRPR Saturday, July 10th i o ‘ â€"Children 2 to 9 years can enjoy crawling through the Big V Amazing Maze. E. WEDNESDAY,JULY7, 1993 â€" * sa" Ts 37 DC103 Kids 24 4| Big V Courtesy Baby Change Tent wils oi i 2 &di M & M Trivia Contest 12 noon to 5 p.m. Children under 12 receive $3.00 off IL=¢'J.J.LA' r:‘m‘ 4 , impressions that take on the hallmarks of reality. When the doctor prescribes Thorazine for the the personality to treating the brain‘s chemicals. The author takes apart the official definition of borderline personality disorder and posits that this label merely replaces the "hysteria" used to Sercuuti dï¬ Cainet TOTere gelte MTUIT sanity and coming of age. At 17, the author was told that life couldâ€"never consists of boyfriends and literature; her social worker urges her to train as a dental technician. "She didn‘t like me because 1. was arrogant and mmwsflmfmm on being a writer." Girl Interrupted at her Music is the name of a Vermeer painting at the Frick museum where had not yet kissed me." it shows a young women seated at the piano with her teacher standing behind her. Sixteen years later she returns to the museum with a boyfriend but the picture has lost its compelling attraction."Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being 17. as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all those momnents, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?" There are no simple â€"Girl, iï¬w-nmd. Susanna Kaysen, Random House, 169 pp, $22.50 c closeâ€"up magic, and Stringer spends hours a week honing his craft. in fact, he still takes lessons from a Torontoâ€"based magician to "Closeâ€"up magic requires, certainly, a notch up on skill," Stringer says. "The slightâ€"ofâ€"hand that it takes to do some tricks takes hours and hours and hours of practice. And from that point of view, it‘s a challenge." Chuck Erion is a Waterloo bookseller and freeâ€" ; Wigs, novelties and I also y acaupl: YÂ¥ ~Mavis Canada‘s No. 1 Name in Bathtub Refinishing l a& s i t es Theatrical Supplies Inc. J â€" Â¥M| > * 12 years experience and over 6,000 bathtubs refinished by us in Kâ€"W & area * We are members of all local organizations dedicated to professional workmanship and professional business ethics _ 46 Princess Street East Waterloo, Ontario ‘Telephone (519) 746â€"1484 Fax (519) 746â€"2954 _ Fast, Clean §\ VISIT QOUR SHOWROOM 1289 VIcTOoRriA st. N., Kitchener 743â€"5351 Bathtub King" Corvette Car Show Sunday, July lith 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. FREE ADMISSION & MICm Nina Restaurant 56 King Street N. Waterloo â€" 888â€"7761 Waterloo Chronicle. in this m Tw PS ae i P