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'CARE TO MEET YOUR SUB-CONSCIOUS?' asked the heading in the Sunday Express. Though not very confident that an introduction effected by that paper would necessarily lead to a profitable friendship between me and my sub-conscious, I glanced through the twenty questions they set. Most of them seemed to me to be based on glaring non-sequiturs and false analogies. However, it seemed probable that the basic theme of the quiz — the more intolerant you are, the less balanced you are—would be accepted by most people. Later I was discussing the quiz with a friend from the north and we discovered an odd discrepancy between the two editions we had read on Sunday. Question Nine in my edition asked, 'How many of the following do you think are morally wrong?' and listed subjects from '(a) Sunday sports' to `(h) capital punishment.' His Question Nine posed the same query but the subjects ran from (a) to (i). The extra subject was at (e) and obviously a last-minute attempt had been made to scratch it out. Nevertheless, it was still possible to glimpse the word 'Pornography.' Presumably Miss Dee Wells, the author of the questionnaire, has rather different views on the sub-conscious from Mr. John Gordon, their resident expert on the subject. But it would never do to have the great anti- pornography crusader suggesting that opposition to pornography, in the words of the summing-up at the end of the test, springs from 'a shy, mousy type whose life is controlled by suppressed hate, and real rage.'
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