{“Speak!” [continued]}[30th July 1987]

[Redbook4:48-49][19870730:0010b]{“Speak!” [continued]}[30^th July 1987]

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*I had been conscious all week that I had gone wrong somewhere – had missed something.** Today the feeling became desperate. In the end, I asked, as I have before, and always successfully: 'Tell me what to do, and I'll do it.'*** Within minutes the answers had presented themselves as my own ideas, everything had fallen into place, and my depression and uncertainty had vanished.

The commands and responses* which began this piece are basic to every such situation, and define it. Until the respondent can accept not only his own lack of skill – which most of us worry about from time to time – but the fact that of himself he has nothing to say – that at the time of responding there is nothing in his mind to communicate – he is not ready. It is the difference between standing up as a politician, and standing up as a bloody fool. The politician is of little use: you must be prepared to make a bloody fool of yourself.

*[See last previous entry.]

**{cf. [[Redbook4:46-47][19870714:1052]{Past and Future}[14^th July 1987]]46.}

**(cf.III.

[[Redbook3:28-30][19870326:1543j]{Recurring Image: Death and Dismemberment}[26^th March 1987] ]29,

[[Redbook3:98-99][19870404:1005g]{Resonance [continued]}[4th April 1987] ]98,

[[Redbook3:175-176][19870412:1525b](PROPERTY [continued])[12th April 1987]]176,

[[Redbook3:25-26][19870326:1543d]{The Round House [continued(3)]}[26^th March 1987] ]25,

[[Redbook3:28-30][19870326:1543j]{Recurring Image: Death and Dismemberment}[26^th March 1987] ]28.}

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