¶ Average Man (1)
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Average Man:
"So there really are quite a number of friends here. There are those whom I’ve not met, and I’d like to start in on the kind of thinking I’m going to do-- thinking out loud-- by letting you have a little idea of how I think about myself, because I consider myself my own private guinea pig. …
“I’ve often found myself being introduced in really quite lavish welcome as if I were some special kind of a creature. And I’m absolutely convinced that the most significant aspect of me is that I couldn’t be more average. I’m quite confident that I haven’t been able, that I haven’t done anything, that anybody cannot do. I’m sure that everybody is gifted with these capabilities, and I just simply became terribly interested in seeing how I could develop what I thought was our comprehensive inventory of innate faculties because I feel I certainly could recall-- as you must, when you’re young, how very sensitive you really felt about that kitten, the first kitten you ever saw. How you felt about the first time you can really remember seeing a flower. … .The delicacy of the human relationship which, as time went on … people saying, darling, it’s a pretty tough world and you’ve got to get over that sensitiveness. You’ve got to harden up. And how”
