Chapter 3
"But Not One Woman"
"This is my conclusion, says the Preacher. Step by step I came to this result after researching in every direction: One tenth of one percent of the men I interviewed could be said to be wise, but not one woman."
While reading, it appeared the words bypassed my conscious entirely and were received by my subconscious. So I was literally reading over my head. At first, there wasn’t any conscious opinion about the paragraph or what my subconscious had tried to say through it.
"So what!" I said, each time he pulled my eyes back (a half a dozen times or more) to reread "but not one woman" again. My conscious intelligence was too full of static to retain or understand anything written. It was too filled with static to understand the simple face value of the Preacher’s words – then. Nevertheless, I read to achieve a little relief. I read the words for my subconscious and he absorbed the meaning.
As I said, the electricity that encompassed my body and bloodstream seemed to disappear into my brain when I held, opened or read the bible. I felt tranquil while reading it, even if my conscious intelligence was impaired and everything I read went over my head……….