Book Excerpt: ersecution is far safer for Harry Scott than facing what he really found out. What we've got to do is to make this delusion less safe than the truth."The room was silent for a long moment. Manelli looked up, his fingers trembling. "Let's hear it.""It's very simple. Up to now, Harry Scott has had delusions of persecution. But now we're really going to persecute Harry Scott, as he's never been persecuted before."3At first he thought he was at the bottom of a deep well and he lay quite still, his eyes clamped ...
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Book Excerpt: ersecution is far safer for Harry Scott than facing what he really found out. What we've got to do is to make this delusion less safe than the truth."The room was silent for a long moment. Manelli looked up, his fingers trembling. "Let's hear it.""It's very simple. Up to now, Harry Scott has had delusions of persecution. But now we're really going to persecute Harry Scott, as he's never been persecuted before."3At first he thought he was at the bottom of a deep well and he lay quite still, his eyes clamped shut, wondering where he was and how he could possibly have gotten there. He could feel the dampness and chill of the stone floor under him, and nearby he heard the damp, insistent drip of water splashing against stone. He felt his muscles tighten as the dripping sound forced itself against his senses. Then he opened his eyes.His first impulse was to scream out wildly in unreasoning, suffocating fear. He fought it down, struggling to siRead More
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