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Dr. Watzlavick, incidentally, got his first inkling of this psychotomimetic function of semantic noise when arriving at a mental hospital as a new staff member. He reported to the office of the Chief psychiatrist, where he found a woman sitting at the desk in the outer office. Dr. Watzlavick made the assumption he had found the boss's secretary.
"I'm Watzlavick," he said, assuming the "secretary" would know he had an appointment.
"I didn't say you were" she replied.
A bit taken aback, Dr. Watzlavick exclaimed, "But I am."
"Then why did you deny it?" she asked.
At this point, in Dr. Watzlavick's view of the situation, the woman no longer seemed a secretary. He now classied her as a schizophrenic patient who had somehow
wandered into the staff offices. Naturally, he became very careful in "dealing with" her.
His revised assumption seems logical, does it not? Only poets and schizophrenics communicate in language that defies rational analysis, and poets do not normally do so in ordinary conversation, or with the above degree of opacity. They also do it with a certain elegance, lacking in this case, and usually with some kind of rhythm and sonority.

However/ from the woman's point of view, Dr. Watzlavick himself had appeared as a schizophrenic patient. You see, due to noise, she had heard a different conversation.
A strange man had approached and said, "I'm not Slavic." Many paranoids begin a conversation with such assertions, vitally important to them, but sounding a bit
strange to the rest of us.
"I didn't say you were," she replied, trying to soothe him.
"But I am," he shot back, thereby graduating from "paranoid" to "paranoid schizophrenic" in her judgment.
"Then why did you deny it?" She asked reasonably, and became very careful in "dealing with" him.
  (Robert Anton Wilson: Quantum psychology. 1990)

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