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how do you describe physical shock? Once I was crossing the street in broad daylight, when a large man spoke to me. I stopped and said, "Excuse me?" and he delivered a punch to my chest so powerful that I flew several feet. He had cracked my chest bone. That unique combination of fear and pain came back to me the day I got my document request. A lawsuit is a kind of violent attack, if you are on the receiving end, and it is made all the more nightmarish by the fact that the invasion into your private life proceeds with a humming, smooth efficiency. No faces, no voices, just the mounting presence of malevolence arriving in envelopes from no person -- from a system.

A mental torture technique