Chapter 21
The study of Gray Mind is significantly impeded by different subjects’ recalcitrant refusal to consistently describe their symptoms or the causation of same.
Whilst one sufferer may claim to experience a “gray fog” in times of despair, another may claim to encounter the same feeling of grayness even when the subject’s life is going well.
This is clearly impossible and leads to several authorities in the field positing that so-called Grayminds falsify symptoms and are, in fact, malingerers.
These same experts prescribe any or all of the following as cures: Hard work, physical exercise, regular beatings, and/or, if the subject is somewhat important to the family responsible, exposure to sunshine in daily doses until the condition is resolved.*
—Disorders of the Mind and Humours, Volume III, edited by High Inquisitor Stangbolt
* The sunshine cure has been long since debunked
—Apprentice Scribe Muevver (handwritten note in Royal Library of Pyrrh copy)