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Poor Mr. Casaubon had imagined that his long studious bachelorhood had stored up for him a compound interest of enjoyment, and that large drafts on his affections would not fail to be honoured; for we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Oh, well, you have your own way of putting things. And I see it has a certain truth. But it is not the whole.”
“A certain truth is our own truth, my boy. The whole seldom concerns us.”
Ivy Compton Burnett, The Present and the Past
As early as 1895, in the Studies on Hysteria (Breuer and Freud, 1893-95), Josef Breuer expressed a prescient concern