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Date: 2021-04-12 11:47 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
There is no nice convenient book (yet) about Joanne and Iria, and of course her medical records are sealed. I hope she’s left instructions for them to be unsealed after she dies. To learn about her, you have to start Googling. She has very interesting interviews on YouTube (sorry—maybe you can turn the screen so you can’t see it, only hear it).

There is a whole chapter on Joanne in Frieda’s biography, To Redeem One Person Is To Redeem The World, by I. Forgethername. (Sorry.). I always thought the secret of what Frieda did for Joanne was the love they so clearly shared. Love can accomplish miracles. It’s also possible that teenage Joanne was outgrowing Iria and Frieda gave her just that additional push she needed to put away childish things. Or both—in the novel, Deborah/Joanne has a substitute psychiatrist for a while, they can’t stand each other, and things don’t go well. Dr. Uncongenial shows D/J how Yri/Irian is bound by the same rules of English and Yiddish grammar by which she is bound. Logically she knows he’s right, but since the feeling is not there, it does her no good. Dr. Uncongenial has a scene where he says ruefully that as a scientist he knows he’s not supposed to admit this, but he and Deborah/Joanne couldn’t get anywhere because they just plain didn’t like each other.

As long as we’re on mental mysteries, were the Genain Quadruplets ever identified? I have always been pretty sure they were the Morlok Quadruplets—how many sets of blonde, female, singing-and-dancing Quadruplets could there have been in Depression-era America? (There are pictures on the Internet of the Genains as adults, showing them to be natural blondes.). I believe the Morloks are all deceased. I haven’t looked up the Genains in ages but if any still live, they must be in their ‘90’s.

I have the book about the Genains. It’s terribly sad. You don’t need Freudian bull[unDruidly word] to explain their problems. Their father was a horrible man who also molested them. Living with that guy would drive most of us nuts.

—Lady Cutekitten
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