The second part of Dr. Stephen Montgomery's quartet on love and coercion among the types focuses on the Guardians (SJ) uniquely responsible style of caring for others. Montgomery has selected characters from works of Jane Austen, Sinclair Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and half a dozen other authors to bring to life the Guardian's parental way in love and marriage, and to illustrate their earnest style of interpersonal manipulation, what Keirsey calls the Pygmalion Project. The book examines Guardians both as instigators and as victims of marital games with the Rationals (NT), the Idealists (NF) and particularly with the childlike Artisans (SP). If you have a Guardian spouse (or even a Guardian parent), this book will help you understand and appreciate them.

The first part of Dr. Stephen Montgomery's quartet on love and coercion among the types focuses on the Artisans (SP) playful and charming way in relations with Guardian (SJ), Rational (NT), Idealist (NF) partners. Begin by completing Keirsey's personality test, then read about the Artisan mating game, how they delight and dismay their loved ones, as presented in the pages of D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and eight other authors. More importantly learn more about Keirsey's concept of the Pygmalion Project, how we are manipulated by them in return. If you've ever been in love with an Artisan (or ever been fooled by one), The Pygmalion Project will prove fascinating reading.

The third part of Dr. Stephen Montgomery's quartet on love and coercion among the types focuses on the Idealists (NF) intense, highly intuitive, temperament. Learn how the Idealists search for ideal love, longing to find the perfect "soul mate" with whom they can share their inner lives. Montgomery has selected characters in the pages of D.H. Lawrence, Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Bronte, E.M. Forester, and several other authors. More significantly, read about the Idealist's special gift for what Professor Keirsey calls the Pygmalion Project, that need in all of us to sculpt our loved ones into copies of ourselves.

The third part of Dr. Stephen Montgomery's quartet on love and coercion among the types focuses on the Idealists (NF) intense, highly intuitive, temperament. Learn how the Idealists search for ideal love, longing to find the perfect "soul mate" with whom they can share their inner lives. Montgomery has selected characters in the pages of D.H. Lawrence, Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Bronte, E.M. Forester, and several other authors. More significantly, read about the Idealist's special gift for what Professor Keirsey calls the Pygmalion Project, that need in all of us to sculpt our loved ones into copies of ourselves.

Sci-fi luminary Stanley G. Weinbaum first broke through with the hugely influential story "A Martian Odyssey," one of the first to depict an alien being in a somewhat sympathetic light. Written in 1935, the short tale "Pygmalion's Spectacles" is no less innovative: it centers around the implications of a technology that's surprisingly close to what we now call virtual reality.

"Pygmalion and the Image" is a poem form The Earthly Paradise by William Morris which is a lengthy collection of retellings of various myths and legends from Greece and Scandinavia. The poem is exceptionally balanced in all its parts. Over all the other versions, its superiority is not because of the manner narration but stems from its greater spirituality, a more refined feeling rather than a more refined form. Before the appearance of "Pygmalion and the Image," each narrator of the legend had resided mainly on the physical side, sensuous according to his temperament, of the tale. It's the only poem from the collection for the illustration of which Burne-Jones actually executed a complete series of pictures; and though the finished paintings are four in number, and the original designs, were twelve, the numerically smaller set is complete in the best sense. Not only does it illustrate fully the text and spirit of Morris's poem, but each picture in it, though finished with the loving care and elaboration which Burne-Jones lavished on his paintings, fails of its full significance unless considered in its relation to the series of which it forms a part." The illustrations consist: The Heart Desires; The Hand Refrains; The Godhead Fires; The Soul Attains