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“The King In Yellow”

Hey! I am going to break a bit from standard formating and bring you a book with a surprisingly positive look towards the disabled for 1895. I am just going to transcribe the entire interaction, word for word (for the best I can)

"Are you going upstairs to see the lunatic again?" laughed old Hawberk. If Hawberk knew how I loathe that word "lunatic," he would never use it in my presence. It rouses certain feelings within me which I do not care to explain. However, I answered him quietly: "I think I shall drop in and see Mr. Wilde for a moment or two."

"Poor fellow," said Constance,with a shake of the head, "It must be hard to live alone year after year poor,crippled and all most demented. It is very good of you, Mr. Castaigne, to visit him as often as you do."

"I think he is vicious," observed Hawberk, beginning again with his hammer. I listened to the golden tinkle on the greave plates; when he had finished I replied: "No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire." Hawberk laughed. I continued a little impatiently: "He knows history as no one else could know it. Nothing, however trivial, escapes his search, and his memory is so absolute, so precise in details, that were it known in New York that such a man existed, the people could not honour him enough."

What I find interesting about this piece is that we see all three reactions from ables to disabled. We have contempt from Hawberk, we have pity from Constance, and we have normality from Mr. Castaigne. And Castaigne, while not going as far as he wanted to (or rather I wanted him to, it is 1895 but I kinda wished the author (Robert W. Chambers) pushed back on the pity aspect), he understands what’s wrong with the word “lunatic” and has to not tell Hawberk about it. And when Hawberk won’t accept that the guy upstairs is good, Mr. Castaigne has to say why he is useful to society. Oh! And the book protrayes a mentally disabled/ill character as a human, in the same chapter that they introduce the suicide machines!

I found this really interesting and I hope you guys did to, I am sorry for this little tangent!

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My partner and I thought of a proper idea for a mutant (xmen mutant) story. The mental disorders, chopping mechanisms and physiological effects of mutant powers.

Like how you can't be nerotypical and physic or a speedster

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