He jumped up on the table, stripped down his trousers, and squatted over the photographs. 'Now for the finishing touch,' said Bill. When at last we had done as much damage as we could, the pile on the table was a large one. The old people must have had a large family, and there were pictures of young people and wedding groups and what were clearly grandchildren everywhere. But I noticed he kept back some things and put them in a neat heap on the dining-room table, which he forbade us to break.

And Bill was like a fury, smashing, overturning, and tearing. McQuilly, driven by some dark Scottish urge, found a crowbar and reduced wooden things to splinters.

He threw feathers from the sofa cushions. Jerry got a knife and ripped the stuffing out of the mattresses. I started gingerly, pulling some books out of a case, but soon was tearing out pages by the handfuls and throwing them around. “Our appetite for destruction grew with feeding. Was their heroism simply meant to raise a whole new crop of invalids? Why don't you go home and shoulder your yoke, and be a hero too?” They were heroes, in a sense that no space-explorer can be a hero, because they went into the unknown absolutely alone. And it should never be forgotten that they made the inward journey while they were working like galley-slaves at their daily tasks, considering other people's troubles, raising families, living full lives. They did not go trustingly to some doctor and follow his lead because they were too lazy or too scared to make the inward journey alone. all men of extraordinary character, and they devised systems that are forever stamped with that character.… Davey, did you ever think that these three men who were so splendid at understanding others had first to understand themselves? It was from their self-knowledge they spoke. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and almost ignorant of Nature: Adler, reducing almost everything to the will to power: and Jung, certainly the most humane and gentlest of them, and possibly the greatest, but nevertheless the descendant of parsons and professors, and himself a super-parson and a super-professor.

“But one must remember that they were all men with systems.

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