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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