Your use of the word ‘capricious’ brought to mind the following: “ He [manifests] but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires, at times pertinaciously obstinate, but yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans of future operation, which are no sooner arranged than they…
Your use of the word ‘capricious’ brought to mind the following: “ He [manifests] but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires, at times pertinaciously obstinate, but yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans of future operation, which are no sooner arranged than they are abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible. A child in his intellectual capacity and manifestations, he has the animal passions of a strong man.” This is a description, by his physician, of the celebrated neurological patient Phineas Gage, after an eleven pound iron bar had been blown through the front of his brain on the 13th September 1848.
Your use of the word ‘capricious’ brought to mind the following: “ He [manifests] but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires, at times pertinaciously obstinate, but yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans of future operation, which are no sooner arranged than they are abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible. A child in his intellectual capacity and manifestations, he has the animal passions of a strong man.” This is a description, by his physician, of the celebrated neurological patient Phineas Gage, after an eleven pound iron bar had been blown through the front of his brain on the 13th September 1848.