Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 6/20/11: The desk girl is vulnerable to psychosomatic symptoms.

William H. Johnson, "Jacobia Hotel" (1930) — William H. Johnson, *Jacobia Hotel* (1930)

June 20, 2011:

The desk girl is vulnerable to psychosomatic symptoms. If there's something she dislikes she gets a cold. Now I know that if she's sneezing I should look for the thing she rejects and change it. "I don't like your face!" she says, sneezing and laughing. Okay, okay. I'll put a bag over my head.