To have a bathtub would be divine. A luxury only those of better breeding can dream of :3
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![drawings, recipes, advertisements, and letters that ran from 1950 to 1981.117 The editorial board was composed of patients who were helped by a few staff members, and the journal was published in the hospital itself by the printing and binding committee. Tosquelles, Bonnafé, and Fanon all contributed several editorials to the early issues of the journal (fig. 1.10). Once again, Trait d’union had both a theoretical and a practical mission. The content was meant to be informational but also philosophically stimulating. Most important perhaps, the act of reading itself was crucial. As one editorial stated on July 15, 1950, the newsletter had “an active therapeutic interest that went beyond its documentary, literary, or informational value. To read a newspaper is a typically social act. . . . It is to exit oneself to listen to the voice of others and to take an interest in their joys and sorrows.” And, addressing the patients directly: “Many of you have lost the taste, the courage, or the incentive to do so, because you are too tired or too sad, or because you simply no longer enjoy talking to other people. You isolate yourself; you live together but everyone stays in their little bubble. A trait-d’union [hyphen] between you, between you and the world, between your pavilions, between you and the staff.”118 Reading was a way to link the patients to the world, to offer them a “hyphen,” literally a “line of union,” to reach this broader “whole.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6rzitih2os42egj6ldz4vy7j/bafkreiak35ulqxph5zigj2ozyvhngvqhu5riqvksjjkmyhnxnwiohfjqxe)
