1 result for (book:tma AND heading:"session fourteen septemb 29 1980" AND stemmed:session)
6/26 (23%)
modern
effortlessness
psychological
deranged
explosive
SESSION FOURTEEN
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
(I have but a few sessions left to check on the copy-edited manuscript for Mass Events. Then I can start correlating it with the first carbon [which we keep], before mailing the manuscript back to Prentice-Hall, probably late this week, for printing. The book is scheduled to be in the stores in May 1981.
(Jane continues her improvements, although she’s been having periods of worry and doubt. Now she waited impatiently for Seth to come through: At first I’d thought she would pass up the session. Finally she felt her boy around. “I’m glad,” I joked. “I was afraid he might only get as far as Coleman Avenue — a block away — or someplace like that. I didn’t want to sit around waiting, and wasting my time. …”)
[... 15 paragraphs ...]
Now, in the world you (to me) early formed your own beliefs and strategies. In midlife you were presented with our sessions — or [the two of] you presented yourselves with them, if you prefer. You recognized the overall vitality of our material (long pause) — but again, you did not realize that it meant a complete reorientation of your attitudes. You did not realize that you were being presented, not merely with an alternate view of reality, but with the closest approximation you could get of what reality was, and how it worked, and what it meant.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
End of session, and a fond good evening.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
(10:14 P.M. Jane had no idea of most of the material in the session — that is, she hadn’t known Seth was going to deliver it. Now, however, she remembered that just before the session she’d picked up the idea that Seth would mention effortlessness in connection with her own situation.)
