Author — A.P. Egides. The book «How to understand people, or the Psychological drawing of personality»
World opening! Tsetse in America!
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The main feature of the schizoid is a tendency to theorize. This is a man-formula, a man-scheme. This is the thinking type. With him, thought prevails over action and over image. His thinking is predominantly not visual-effective, not visual-figurative, but conceptual and theoretical. Mathematics-physics is easier for him than literature-history. He will solve the puzzle, but he will not be able to walk on the board, even if it is placed on the floor, let alone on two chairs. He will be well versed in the theory of versification, but he will dimly read even a bright poem. They say about such people that they are “scientific crackers”. They are far from life.
This is Cousin Benedict from Captain Fifteen, who is well aware that the tsetse fly, according to his colleagues, is found only in Africa, and concludes that they are wrong — «since we are in America, the tsetse fly is also found here.» While the unenlightened but sane Negro Hercules quickly realized from other, more everyday details that this was not Aumerica, it was Aufric!