On turning light into laser...

The actual metaphor should be, on turning flame - wobbly, hot, all over the place - into a welding arc. Pure poetry! Not!! Except an arc uses electricity, not deconstructing, catabolic oxidation. Oxidation - yes! On turning oxy-acetylene into a welding flame fail! A friend posted an article to me. I felt as if I was reading a post from The 3lack 3ox rewritten by Barbara Cartland. A romantic fantasy. So, GG MBACP. An integrative therapist working in private practice. My apologies for what my hotter than the arc light laser, deceptively incandescent, words may bring you. Because I can't, won't play nice. The one thing we don't need more of when talking about erotic transfer, or therapy at all is, soupy nonsense. Not sorry, said it. A romance. So, flaccid fantasy then? Yes indeed. But portrayed as a possibility, as a true account. Well sure. I've seen people believe things that genuinely have not happened and watched that belief become a contagion...