And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there nigh unto The Mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying,
“Send us into The Swine, that we may enter into them.”
And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into The Swine: and The Herd ran violently down a steep place into The Sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in The Sea.
And they that fed The Swine fled, and told it in The City, and in The Country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
And They come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with The Devil, and had The Legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind :
And They were AFRAID.
"Many actors have had equally hard battles in getting detached from, if not a specific character, a specific type.
Humphrey Bogart remained stuck in villain roles, usually gangsters, for nearly a decade before he got to play his first hero.
Cary Grant never did escape from the hero type — either the romantic hero or the comic hero; when Alfred Hitchcock persuaded him to play a murderer, in Suspicion, the studio over-ruled both of them and tacked on a surprise ending in which the Grant character did not commit the murder, after all. Etc.
Back in "The Real World," if a member of a family changes suddenly, the whole family suddenly appears agitated and disturbed.
Family counselors have learned to expect this, even when the change consists of something everybody considers desirable — e.g., an alcoholic who suddenly stops drinking can "destabilize" the family to the extent that another member becomes clinically depressed, or develops psychosomatic symptoms, or even starts drinking heavily (as if the family "needed" an alcoholic).
It seems that we not only speak and think in sentences like "John is an old grouch" but become disoriented and frightened if John suddenly starts acting friendly and generous.”
