Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


She had a strange feeling of loss of self, of being a stranger to
herself, and the world in which she moved seemed a vague and
shrouded world. It lacked sharpness of definition. Its customary
vividness was gone. She had lapses of memory, and was continually
finding herself doing unplanned things. Thus, to her
astonishment, she came to in the back yard hanging up the week's
wash. She had no recollection of having done it, yet it had been
done precisely as it should have been done. She had boiled the
sheets and pillow-slips and the table linen. Billy's woolens had
been washed in warm water only, with the home-made soap, the
recipe of which Mercedes had given her. On investigation, she
found she had eaten a mutton chop for breakfast. This meant that
she had been to the butcher shop, yet she had no memory of having
gone. Curiously, she went into the bedroom. The bed was made up
and everything in order.

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