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absolutely requires a "predisposing factor" to be present in some males, and that your past efforts have all been spent on the study of what triggers it off. Mine are to find out what it is; a rather different approach, and I think a more important one. As in the case of the forest fire, there are many possible sources of "ignition", but they are ineff- ective unless the "tinder" is there. I doubt that you can prove that a neural circuit for talent does NOT exist, but that is hardly relevant as very few of the works of art we do on our faces really rival Rembrandt! What DOES matter is that I have produced a plausible explanation of how a predisposing factor could arise in a fraction of the male population. I shall leave it to you to develop what social influ- ences are equivalent to electroshock, concussion and brain injections in triggering off this phenomenon.

In closing, I must ask once again, "Where is ANY evidence (except often-quoted opinions from long- dead "authorities") that TV has a psychological ori- gin? Surely not from the "cures" effected by psycho- therapy, and your remarks on page 80 do nothing to answer it. Your statement that you "don't know how it started and .... don't care" seems highly irres- ponsible. I care VERY much, and feel that under- standing the cause of TV is closely linked to both public and self acceptance. Consider the epileptics who have lived under the shameful label of "madness", but who can now hold up their heads in public because their problem has been proved to be congenital and neurological. Do not we TVs have a right to hope for the same outcome, and to try to bring it about by encouraging research along the lines I have in- dicated" While it's fun to play with pretty words, ugly numbers are what will win this argument and most of them seem to be falling on my side of the board!

Best regards,

SHEILA