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[neverplays]

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[worksmart]

Yeah you do.

[neverplays]

Nope. Doesn't count when someone else makes you do it.

[worksmart]

You're making you do it. Every morning when you wake up with your eyes a bit gritty. Sometimes when you're sneezing, or yawning. Nothing wrong with it. We've got tear ducts because it's healthy to cry, emotionally and otherwise.

[neverplays]

I don't cry emotionally, Mr. Stickler-For-Details. There's no reason to be a baby, when crying won't fix your problems.

[worksmart]

I just said, crying emotionally is healthy too. Second quickest release of tension. It might not fix your problems, but it can be cathartic enough to let you face up to them.

[neverplays]

I like skipping that step and going on to the facing up part. It's just cutting out the fluff.

I'm kinda more of the get angry and get shit done type of person, anyway.

[worksmart]

Fair enough, that's a healthy emotion too. Won't get you far with a parasite in your head, though.

[neverplays]

Neither will crying.

Not unless you've figure out a way to cry into your brain.

[worksmart]

Nope. Just trying to live up to my new nickname.

[neverplays]

Hey, that's one of my better nicknames. Count yourself lucky.

[worksmart]

Still, if I'm going to be a stickler for detail I have to point out that a high level of emotional fortitude would be about as useless as a complete lack of it. Or a high or low intellect. You're talking about mentally overcoming a physical stimulus. Not possible, unless you believe in telekinesis.

[neverplays]

Then you're saying there's no way out? Say it was just you and the slug, and no one to yank it out. You're screwed.

If you think hard enough, concentrate hard enough, maybe you could overcome it. That's what I mean. And maybe it's unlikely, but I don't think it's impossible.

[worksmart]

More than unlikely. Can you close your eyes and think a tapeworm out of your stomach? Because there are a lot of kids in the third world who'd like you to show them how. I took clinical hypnosis, in med school. I've seen people undergo surgery with no anesthetic, because they'd trained themselves to override pain signals. But if I opened up their skull and prodded the right spot, no amount of mental conditioning could stop them responding. That's the difference.

[neverplays]

But that thing isn't exactly a tapeworm, is it? Its brain must be what- the size of a grain of rice? But it can control minds and think like a human being. It's not a normal parasite, which means who knows what could work..

Sure, you can't think it out of your brain, but maybe you could regain control. Stop it from controlling you by forcing it out of the way and taking the wheel.

[worksmart]

Have you ever looked after someone's cat?

[neverplays]

I don't like animals.

[ More like: Mindy doesn't like taking care of animals because she's never tried it. But this carries the point across stronger. ]