My Reviewers’ Sense of Need

My reviewers felt no sense of need to understand me—if they had they

would have developed the mental organism which would have enabled them to

do so. When the time comes that they want to do so they will throw out a

little mental pseudopodium without much difficulty. They threw it out

when they wanted to misunderstand me—with a good deal of the pseudo in

it, too.

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