"I don't know."
Anthony went to see a psychologist.
"How many people do you know, Dr. Shirm?"
"I could be crabby and say that I know as many as I want to; but it wouldn't be the truth. I rather like people, which is odd in my profession. What is it that you really want to know?"
"How many people can one man know?"
"It doesn't matter very much. People mostly overestimate the number of their acquaintances. What is it that you are trying to ask me?"
"Could one man know everyone?"
"Naturally not. But unnaturally he might seem to. There is a delusion to this effect accompanied by an euphoria, and it is called—"
"I don't want to know what it is called. Why do specialists use Latin and Greek?"
"One part hokum, and two parts need; there simply not being enough letters in the alphabet of exposition without them. It is as difficult to name concepts as children, and we search our brains as a new mother does. It will not do to call two children or two concepts by one name."