“The maidservants all were in love with Southampton, in a rapt, unhoping way, like a tribe of poets in love with the moon; one would have a fit of tears, then it spread to another and another, until all the house heaved with love's calamity.” LoveHumorInfatuationContagiousFigurative LanguageLovesickThe HeavensSandra Newman Book:The Heavens Source: The Heavens
“But he was left with the all-too-familiar feeling of having been infected by insanity, of being drawn into someone else's insanity.” Mental IllnessInsanityContagiousThe HeavensSandra Newman Book:The Heavens Source: The Heavens