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“It is the insertion between man and his environment of a pseudo environment. To that pseudo-environment his behavior is a response. But because it is behavior, the consequences, if they are acts, operate not in the pseudo-environment where the behavior is stimulated but in the real environment where action eventuates.”

“For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities, and that in many cases they help to create the very fictions to which they respond.”

“Whether they themselves believe in their public character, or whether they merely permit the chamberlain to stage -manage it, there are atleast two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.”