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see Brock was just a little Lad, One Christmas Eve, his Father had Resolved, by Night, to visit him And fill that Stocking to the Brim With Toys and Sweets and All those Things That Santa Claus (or Bearer) brings. His tather thought, once in a While It’s nice to do the Thing in Style, And ‘put on the complete Disguise, Red Cloak and Whiskers to the EyesAnd thus appeared at 12 o’clock Beside the Bed of little Brock. (O, never was a midnight Mission More charged with vicious Superstition!) The Child slept on, until, Alas, His Parent, happening to pass Too near a Table, tripped, and fell; Poor Brock awakened with a Yell Of sudden Fright, and sat up staring, Saw Santa Claus, and heard him swearing! An irremediable Shdbk For any Child, and worse for Brock, Who even in those early Years Was subject to peculiar Fears. His mental Balance, never strong, Grew psychologically wrong. That eatly Shock produced, of Course, A Complex of appalling Force. To which I clearly trace the Twist That made him a Psychiatrist. And now he fancies that the Cause Of every Ill is Santa ClausAll human Failures, Follies, Wars, All Suffering he diagnoses As merely Santa Claus Neuroses, And all because of Sécret Fears Deriving from his infant Years, Then, O Psychiatrists bewars! Think how some unremembered Scare May turn your Science secretly Aside from Objectivi-ty. Psychiatrise yourselves, you'll find How fallible may be the Mind. We are Escapists? You are not? The Question is: Where to? From. What?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 339, 21 December 1945, Page 12
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262Saving Clause New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 339, 21 December 1945, Page 12
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