One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Can Big Nurse control time?

it from part I p.70

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Real time? Absolutely not. Time within the ward? Yes.....

"Bromden says that Nurse Ratched can set the wall clock at whatever speed she chooses just by turning a dial in the door. She generally slows time down to keep the patients at her mercy."

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