Kate Gompert on the psych ward — "Everything gets horrible. Everything you see…"
‘Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That’s the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh-sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It’s like what’s the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower.’
Context
The sensorium of It: perception itself turned hostile — ugly sights, dentate sounds, the smell of needing another shower right after a shower. Borrowing her outside psychiatrist's "lurid" is the closest she can get to language from inside a feeling she "can't get enough outside… to call it anything."