The most concrete technique in the corpus, and Neville gives it twice over with two households. A New York lawyer of forty, trained at one of the great universities, was earning eighty-seven dollars a week; his wife asked whether she could apply the technique for him without his knowledge or consent, since trained as he was he could not conceive of it, and whether she might double the income. Neville said: double it? Treble it. A year later he was making three hundred a week, and Neville told her plainly, you did it, he didn't - but you paid the price, you were vigilant, persistent, faithful. Then she said she wanted him to be a judge, and the instruction Neville gave was about how she speaks to her servant: from now on you only think of your husband as a judge. Take this to the judge. Would you please take to the judge an ashtray. Whatever it is you want to send to your husband, he is the judge - there is only one judge in your mind's eye in your household. He justifies it with his own family. His sister-in-law Doris, from the day she married his brother Lawrence, always referred to him as the doctor and never by name, and discriminated between him and her two sons, whom she calls Dr Michael and Dr Robert - they are not the doctor. People laughed at her when she started, and Lawrence became the most prominent doctor in Barbados with the biggest practice, many doctors working for him and a clinic of thirty beds. The technique's content is a form of address used consistently in the presence of others, which is why it works as an assemblage of mental states (M578): the servant, the cup, and the title together imply the office.
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Take this to the judge
There’s only one judge in your mind’s eye in your household and that is your husband
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LectureCounting the Cost
Today in Barbados he is the most prominent doctor, he has the biggest practice, many doctors working for him, and a clinic with thirty beds. And so, he’s the most busy doctor in the island of Barbados.
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to: 956
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LectureCounting the Cost
Whatever it is you want to send to your husband, he is the judge. He is not just your husband, Mr. So and so, [...], he’s earned the right to be called Judge and you refer to him as Judge.
Span from: 1079
to: 1267
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