[Ads-l] rent-free in your head

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Excellent further progress, Steven.
Here is a citation from the year that is forever linked to George Orwell.

Year: 1984 Copyright
Title: The Courage To Change: Hope and Help for Alcoholics and Their
Families: Personal Conversations with Dennis Wholey
Author: Dennis Wholey
Chapter 13: Say Yes To Life
Quote Page 295
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts
Database: Internet Archive - Verified with scans

[Begin excerpt]
Some of the saddest people I see are those who come into my office and
are emotionally on the edge of their chairs. I can see by what's
emanating from them that they are living a situation created by what
somebody did to them years ago. They have been allowing that person to
live in their head rent-free for years, and they are totally
immobilized. They can't talk about anything else.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 11:14 AM Steven Losie <stevenlosie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the additions, Garson and Laurence. Here's another earlier one.
> Quoting an unnamed "woman in Cleveland":
>
> [begin quote]
> Black people, for example, need not imitate the worst of white competitive
> consumers. They can forge some other values of their own. I say to
> competitive blacks sometimes: 'You're letting your white brother live
> inside your head rent-free!'
> [end quote]
> Source: Illiterate America
> Author: Jonathan Kozol
> Page: 104
> Date: 1985
> Publisher: Anchor Press/Doubleday (Garden City, NY)
> Database: Internet Archive
> https://archive.org/details/illiterateameric0000kozo_e9l7/page/104/mode/2up?q=rent
>
> That same chapter was also published in:
> Source: Public Welfare: The Journal of the American Public Welfare
> Association (Washington, DC), Vol.43, No.3, Summer 1985, p.14, col.1
> Article title: Illiterate America (Part I)
> Author: Jonathan Kozol
> Database: Google Books (Snippet view), confirmed via microfilm copy at the
> New York Public Library
> https://books.google.com/books?id=9vQFAAAAIAAJ&dq=head+rent-free&pg=PA14
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TPlIJLAZ-hX63Rijdi4j0BK1XEXV4M9j/view?usp=sharing
>
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