27-01-2011, 01:24 AM
On the sidewalk in Boston in 1970 a street person presented a half-sheet of paper advising a Free Scientology Lecture was scheduled only minutes away in a second-floor room accessible from the stairwell before me.
In a sea of metal folding chairs thinly populated sat I as the black used car salesman in loud plaid coat placed Psych 101 terms on the board.
I raised my hand.
"Aren't these just Psych 101 terms you're using to sell your product?"
Oh, no, certainly not.
Later, holding the washed-out soup cans wired to the knows-all tells-all e-meter, the Man in Plaid informed me I was full of negative concepts which I could shed for an escalating menu of pricing.
I descended the stairs, negative concepts and all.
Prouty on the other oddly-formed hand I don't see selling overmuch; Lansdale being a late addition upon which I don't insist.
I think the Proutian thesis was that Kennedy had reached a critical mass of power-brokers being unamuseda proposition with which none but the Church Lady of the Confusatory could quibble.
In a sea of metal folding chairs thinly populated sat I as the black used car salesman in loud plaid coat placed Psych 101 terms on the board.
I raised my hand.
"Aren't these just Psych 101 terms you're using to sell your product?"
Oh, no, certainly not.
Later, holding the washed-out soup cans wired to the knows-all tells-all e-meter, the Man in Plaid informed me I was full of negative concepts which I could shed for an escalating menu of pricing.
I descended the stairs, negative concepts and all.
Prouty on the other oddly-formed hand I don't see selling overmuch; Lansdale being a late addition upon which I don't insist.
I think the Proutian thesis was that Kennedy had reached a critical mass of power-brokers being unamuseda proposition with which none but the Church Lady of the Confusatory could quibble.