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Show u William James, the famous psychologist psych-ologist of Harvard, said at a dinner in Boston: "An odor often recalls to us a childhood child-hood scene. A voice brings back memories mem-ories that we had thought buried forever. for-ever. As we regard some s nge landscape, it often seems to us that we have been just here before. The oddost, the most momentous associations associa-tions oftentimes attach themselves to the most trifling things. "Thus, at a Thanksgiving dinner that I once attended, the hostess said to a sour faced man on her loft: "'May I help you to some of the boiled rice, Mr. Smith?' "'Rice? No, thank you; no rice for mo,' Smith answered, vehemently. 'It is associated with the worst mistake of my life." Rochester Herald. |