Delirium
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the procedure
Bambi
Jan 05, 2013 11:31AM
I've just finished reading Delerium and am half way through pandemonium, and it wasn't until cancer is mentioned and how you cannot cut away too much of the brain that this thought occurred to me. How can people, like Lena's mother, have multiple procedures. If how I perceive the procedure is how it is meant, it is cutting away a specific part of the brain that causes 'the deleria', then if it does not work the first time, what do they cut out in the following procedures. Surely there would be nothing effective to cut away, unless they did not complete the procedure properly the first time. Just something that was playing around whilst reading :)
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Maybe it's like having your tonsils removed, if you miss a tiny bit, they might grow back. Otherwise, maybe there were specific areas that could be infected, but one area in particular was common amongst most people, so most people only needed one part removed to be considered cured, but Lena's mom was a special case where multiple areas of her brain were infected?
What the procedure does is that it enables the part in the brain that feels love and loss and sadness to function,i have read the book along time ago so correct me if i am wrong but i don't remember them mentioning the cutting part.. well maybe in book 2 they did.. i don't remember but what i though was that they did something to that part in the brain to keep it from working by cutting some little part of it not cut it entirely.. maybe that's why it did not work with Lena's mom, because they could not keep it from working.. but if it was only that and the procedure involved no cutting at least not much then then why was it so dangerous on Julian? :D
I haven't read Delirium since last year, but I'm sure that it's sort if like a incision that goes in quickly. They literally repeated this process on her mother, going deeper each time because they believed they just didn't go deeper.
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