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[...] (Pause.) The file cabinets were beneath another piece of furniture, or a top board of some kind. [...]

[...] I also understood as we talked that when Jane’s grandfather had wanted to move out of the house on Middle Avenue, he had sold all the furniture and had the utilities turned off. [...]

[...] Ruburt has strongly held down any tendencies through the years to spend any money, small as it might be, in decorating, buying furniture, simply because of your joint attitudes, the feeling of transition.

[...] Had you attempted better to coordinate the establishment, had you bought furniture, this would have made a difference. [...]

[...] Lorraine told us the walls of the apartment were painted yellow, and that the furniture was of the old-fashioned kind with large rose decorations.

(Tracing of the fragment of the old furniture label used in the 12th envelope test, in Session 196, October 6,1965.)

[...] You could see, for example, your present living room not only as a conglomeration of permanent-appearing furniture, but switch your focus and see the immense and constant dance of molecules and other particles that compose the various objects.

[...] He is broken up because he has moved his furniture, but he does not confuse me. [...]

[...] We’d spent the afternoon moving furniture. [...]

[...] Mass production was inconceivable, because the originality of each piece of art, or furniture, or bowl, held its value in that manner, and the idea of producing a copy of anything would have been considered ludicrous, or considered an act without reason.

[...] In its great exuberant physical energy it chases its own tail, scales the furniture, tires itself out — and man’s mind exuberantly plays with itself in somewhat the same fashion. [...]

[...] See how the image can be seen as a part of the overall pattern of the environment — the room or furniture, or yard or whatever.

[...] Except for a barrier, yes, Ruburt may do what he wishes with his furniture. [...]

[...] Frank Longwell dropped in as I began moving furniture in the morning, and helped greatly as we repositioned a couple of heavy tables. [...]

[...] I do not mean furniture necessarily. [...]

A deep feeling of dissatisfaction will show itself in early symptoms of furniture moving; not on a casual and to-be-expected normal scale, but on a truly monumental scale. The aggression however wants to be directed against the living things, and in lieu of angry letters Ruburt finally stops moving furniture and literally shoves himself around.

First of all, on a jovial note, may I remark upon the new furniture arrangement, adding that for your purposes the second room divider will prove most advantageous.

Now: all in all, the overall systems of conventional belief are relatively simple, and serve to define reality by numbering as truths or facts certain kinds of events, therefore accepting them as legitimate furniture for the mind. [...]

[...] You do not have to think before you cross the floor—where there Ruburt is aware of the slightest detail—the arrangement of his body or the furniture, the lay of the floor.

[...] He knows he wants to move furniture, to change the environment. [...]

[...] Change your living room furniture, your bedroom, your kitchen or whatever you can—simply to symbolically and slowly break you in to the idea of change, and to break up the invisible bulk of mental patterns that are connected with your present state.

[...] Seth’s remarks about Willy Two, or Billy, as we sometimes call him now, were obviously made in response to the funny annoyance we’d felt before the session, when the kitten had been in great form; jumping all over the furniture, pawing at the curtains — as well as Jane and me — getting in our papers, and so forth.)