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From: amroth@zetnet.co.uk.NOJUNK (Phil Edwards)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: 10% of the brain (1944)
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 22:14:15 GMT

>From an ad for the Pelman Institute on the inside front cover of a wartime Penguin edition of _Cold Comfort Farm_:

"A mind that balks at sticking to one thing for more than a few minutes surely cannot be depended upon to get you anywhere in your years of life! The tragedy of it all is this: you know that you have within you the intelligence, the earnestness, and the ability that can take you right to the high place you want to reach in life! What is wrong? What's holding you back? Just one fact - one scientific fact. That is all. Because, as Science says, you are using only one-tenth of your real brain-power!"
[...]
"Take up Pelmanism now! A course of Pelmanism brings out the mind's latent powers and develops them to the highest point of efficiency. It banishes Mind Wandering, Inferiority, and Indecision, and in their place develops Optimism, Concentration, and Reliability, all qualities of the utmost value in any walk of life."

Phil "52-card pickup" Edwards
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Phil Edwards http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/amroth "When you're in love, you see things too clearly. You see things in magnification and become a paranoiac." - Guy Maddin


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