“If she voices what she feels, she becomes a threat to everyone, so that she begins to experience herself as a Cassandra. She learns to keep her mouth shut and articulates her thoughts through her pen in secret. The real personality is in the writing. This may lead to salvation or destruction. Her natural bent is towards perfection, purification, aesthetics. Her ideal is to remove all the superficial veils until only essence is left. If she fasts, she quickly experiences her hypersensitivity to each of her five senses, and her hyperacuity to her own unconscious. Once she experiences the intensity of fasting and the power in herself which that releases, she may find it "rich to die/ To cease upon a midnight with no pain." For her, this is no longer a negation of life, but an active desire for the perfection of death.”