ABSTRACT
A favourite quotation of Bion’s, 1 and of Melanie Klein’s, was contained in a letter by Dr Samuel Johnson to Bennet Langton:
Whether to see life as it is, will give us much consolation, I know not; but the consolation which is drawn from truth, if any there be, is solid and durable; that which may be derived from error must be, like its original, fallacious and fugitive.
