ATD p356 Chinese Gong Effect

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 14:29:36 CDT 2007


On 4/8/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>          "Hilarius only made a face at her, one he'd made before.
>          He was full of these delightful alpses from orthodoxy. His
>          theory being that a face is symmetrical like a Rorschach
>          blot, tells a story like a TAT picture, excites response like
>          a suggested word, so why not. He claimed to have once
>          cured a case of hysterical blindness with his number 37,
>          the "Fu-Manchu" (many of the faces having like German
>          symphonies both a number and nickname), which involved
>          slanting the eyes up with the middlefingers, pulling the mouth
>          wide with the pinkies and protruding the tongue. On Hilarius
>          it was truly alarming.
>          COL 49 pgs 8/9

I was more asking about that "heavily" ...



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