Hypnotic dialogue from The Woman in Green…
“How easily we charlatans take advantage. Its wonderful, the attraction, on the feeble minded of course, the continuous motion, if they just let themselves follow it. Of course you could stare at it till doomsday Doctor Watson and not be affected, still it might make you a little drowsy, like the white ribbon of of the road at night when you are driving. The ribbon is smooth and unbroken and the road goes on and on, round and round, with the same winding and winding and you’re tired and drowsy. Let the road come into you as it were, the long road, the smooth road, the road to sleep, sleep…”
