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10the woods with a rifle and try to live off the country. "If it doesn't work and if I can get back tocivilization before I starve then I will come back here and kill someone I hate." In his writings heemphasized what he knew was the fact that he now felt he had the courage to behave in thismanner.He also wrote in the autobiography of a series of recurrent dreams: “I occasionally beganhaving dreams of a type that I continued to have occasionally over a period of several years. Inthe dream I would feel either that organized society was hounding me with accusations in someway, or that organized society was trying in some way to capture my mind and tie me downpsychologically or both. In the most typical form some psychologist or psychologists (often inassociation with parents or other minions of the system) would either be trying to convince methat I was "sick" or would be trying to control my mind through psychological techniques. Iwould be on the dodge, trying to escape or avoid the psychologist either physically or in otherways. But I would grow angrier and finally I would break out in physical violence against thepsychologist and his allies. At the moment when I broke out into violence and killed thepsychologist or other such figure, I experienced a great feeling of relief and liberation.Unfortunately, however, the people I killed usually would spring back to life again very quickly.They just wouldn't stay dead. I would awake with a pleasurable sense of liberation at havingbroken into violence, but at the same time with some frustration at the fact that my victimswouldn't stay dead. However, in the course of some dreams, by making a strong effort of will inmy sleep, I was able to make my victims stay dead. I think that, as the years went by, thefrequency with which I was able to make my victims stay dead through exertion of willincreased."He spent the next two years as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Berkeley, then