Strange psychological phenomenon

[ACW at MIT-AI (Allan C. Wechsler)]

At first, when unused to BOLIO, I found the font specification
sequences disconcerting: it was hard for me to read unboliized
(unboliated?) text, partly because of the random 3's and *'s
scattered throughout.

Suddenly I have become acclimatized.  And behold, here in
an editor buffer displayed in spartan Cptfont, text enclosed
by 2 and * began to appear italicized, and text enclosed by
3 and * began to appear in boldface.  This happened only
when I wasn't thinking about it.  Has anyone else noticed this
weird adjustment?

   ---Wechsler