| Show TALKING TO ONESELF A kore became W benr they mean madness Mad nesB talking to oneself has this obvious advantage over any other form of oratory or gossip one Is assured of a sympathetic audience but it has also this peculiar drawback it Is supposed to be one of the early symptoms of insanity wrongly eo perhaps A mad doctor might rule the habit out of his diagnosis nevertheless the popular belef Is firmly rooted and it Is for tear of this belief doubtless that we talk to ourselves even as we dress our hair with straws so rarely it may be said that wo never do address ourselves at any length except in tho delirium of n fever in moments of ordinary excitement of course wo utter to the wind some sort of appropriate ejaculation delight wrings from us a cry of or thank heaven even though there be none by to echo us similarly in any disgust we emit one of thosa sounds whose rather poor equivalents in print are ugh and faugh and tut much further than this we do not go why what an ass am I 1 cries hamlet in one of his soliloquies omitting the first word and transposing the last two the ordinary modern man does often soliloquize to that extent but he could no more soliloquize to hamlets extent than ho could speak in nor Is there any reason to suppose that that class of the community with which contemptuous of his own fluency hamlet compared himself Is or ever was more prone to soliloquize than any other in tho matter of we cannot accept hamlet as an unbiased authority we merely find in him the possible origin of the belief that talking to oneself is a bad sign saturday review |
