Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
Author: Edward Bellamy
Category: Literature
Published: 2003
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Read OnlineThis book is perfectly layout for reading on e-Reader.A novel about a doctor who develops a method of eradicating painful memories from people\'s brains so that they can feel good about life again. Excerpt from Dr Heidenhoff\'s Process. Deacon Tuttle had spoken and prayed, Deacon Miller had prayed and spoken, Brother Hunt had amplified a point in last Sunday\'s sermon, Brother Taylor had called attention to a recent death in the village as a warning to sinners, and Sister Morris had prayed twice, the second time it must be admitted, with a certain perceptible petulance of tone, as if willing to have it understood that she was doing more than ought to be expected of her. But while it was extremely improbable that any others of the twenty or thirty persons assembled would feel called on to break the silence, though it stretched to the crack of doom, yet, on the other hand, to close the meeting before the mill bell had struck nine would have been regarded as a dangerous innovation. Accordingly, it only remained to wait in decorous silence during the remaining ten minutes.