Is this clear to you, my Mind ?" "It is quite clear," answered the muffled voice.
"He was so utterly mad that he even gave that woman a name--a name, when she had never existed except in his imagination." "Except in his imagination," repeated the sleeper, without resistance.
"He called her Beatrice.

The name was suggested to him because he had fallen ill in a city of the South where a woman called Beatrice once lived and was loved by a great poet.

That was the train of self-suggestion in his delirium.

Mind, do you understand ?" "He suggested to himself the name in his illness." "In the same way that he suggested to himself the existence of the woman whom he afterwards believed he loved ?" "In exactly the same way." "It was all a curious and very interesting case of auto-hypnotic suggestion.

It made him very mad.