Six lectures (60, 1204, 1745, 1851, 2085 and 3953's neighbourhood), and it is the clearest demonstration in the corpus that an assumption can be installed in someone else. The name had nothing behind it: no social standing, no financial standing, no intellectual standing, and the family could ill afford the little things the children had to have. When one of them did something she thought unbecoming, their mother did not punish - she said, Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard? Neville's reading is stated and repeated at 1204, 1745 and 1851 and he never softens it: she made the name important, it had no importance whatsoever, had no significance, but you walked in the consciousness of being a Goddard. The result is offered as the proof, in the present tense and without modesty: they are the biggest business people in all the islands today, in Barbados and now St. Lucia and St. Vincent, the tops as to name and industry. She made it important. At 1851 he turns it into an instruction to the audience - try it with your children, make your name, which they bear, an important name - with a practical consequence that is the whole point of the method: you can spare the whip by simply recalling their memory to the fact that they have forgotten the importance of their parents and, therefore, the importance of themselves. Distinct from the objection motif that uses the same words (Jim in Barbados, you are a Goddard, you're all business people), which is about a name as a prejudice rather than a name as a state. PROVENANCE. Coined out of sequence at the request of the attach lane, which found the passages while attaching other motifs and reported that nothing in the catalogue held them. The canonical and the occurrences below were read in full before coining; the rest of the corpus-wide set was supplied by the lane and is attached, not read, so the occurrences here carry confidence 0.95 rather than 0.99.
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Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard?
Make your name, which they bear, an important name
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LectureA Confession of Faith
Try it with your children. Make your name, which they bear, an important name. And then actually you can spare the whip by simply recalling their memory to the fact that they have forgotten the importance of their parents
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LectureA Confession of Faith
She made the name important. It had no importance whatsoever, had no significance, but you walked in the consciousness of being a Goddard.
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