picture

What is striking about the self portrait is that the patient had pictured herself as a much younger woman

Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move. I tried this way and I tried that; I pictured his future in an English gaol; I described the sorrow of his mother when I came back with the news; I said everything to touch his heart, but all to no purpose.