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A tale of telepathic healing gone astray, May Sinclair’s “The Flaw in the Crystal” (1912) dramatically interrogates the boundaries between self and other:
In the process of getting at Harding to heal him [Agatha] had had to destroy, not only the barriers of flesh and blood, but those innermost walls of personality that divide and protect, mercifully, one spirit from another. With the first thinning of the walls Harding’s insanity had leaked through to her, with the first breach it had broken in. (“Flaw” 176)
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- 3.See, for example, Christie’s “The Hound of Death” and “The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael”, both of which conflate psychology and “the occult sciences” (Agatha Christie, The Golden Ball and Other Stories. 1924. New York: Berkeley, 1984: 136).Google Scholar
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