RECALCITRANCE

insofar as the will is the spirit under the tutelage of the intellect ... and the mind has supplied a broken premise or chain of reason to the practical syllogism ... the argument must be broken before the conclusion gets out of hand ... the connection between the ego and the superego must itself be broken ... action redirected to another conclusion and brought through it to a better end ... and a wiser spirit ... the intellect that is must be brought to see reason to recognize the truth ... but if the spirit be depraved either too angry or too sad it will resist this movement and the argument will become more and more refined in defense of the broken premise ... which inevitably turns out rather to be a broken promise ... I had the thought I'd get away with this that you'd let me ... the signals you sent were contemptibly clear ... your acting in this new part is ill-timed and misdirected ... we will return to the old agreement ... or if you say not then there's an end to refinement ... we'll say instead forever no