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…s time twenty-three years old. You wonder that I write with such serious atti- tude of mind. I sometimes think that I have never had any thoughts of my own; that I have always been read- ing the thoughts of another, or perhaps of Nature. I seem only to have been a woman in those first few months of marriage. VII The six months following held for me nothing out of the ordinary, save that six or seven times I had dreams, vivid and terrible. Arthur had no share in these; yet I knew, I cannot say how, that they were his dreams and not mine; or rath…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…d of a drowning man might have suggested something of the sort to any man with a sympathetic and active imagination. Worse even than the thoughts themselves was the apprehension of the thoughts ere they arose. Carbun- cles, boils, ulcers, cancers, there is no equivalent for these pustules of the bowels of hell, into whose seething convolutions Arthur sank deeper, ever deeper. The magnitude of this experience is not to be ap- prehended by the human mind as we know it. I was convinced that an end must come, for me, with the cre- mation of the bod…
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
…SH, M.D. NOTES: 1. It is one of the greatest cruelties of nature that all painful or depressing emotions seem to lengthen time; pleasant thoughts and exalted moods make time fly. Thus, in summing up a life from an outside standpoint, it would seem that, supposing pleasure and pain to have occupied equal periods, the impression would be that pain was enormously greater than pleasure. This may be controverted. Virgil writes: Fortisan haec olim memi- nisse juvabit, and there is at least one modern writer thoroughly conversant with pessimism who …
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…u a woman? No, said I, I am my husband's colleague. I think it is suggestion. You have hypnotized him? Never: but I can read his thoughts. Yes, I remember now; I read a very remarkable paper in Mind two years ago. That was child's play. But let me go on with my work. He gave some final instructions to the nurse, and went out. The suffering of Arthur was at this time unspeak- able. Chewed as he was into mere pulp that passed over the tongue of Dis, each bleeding fragment kept its own identity and his. The papillae of the tongue we…
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…who has such an opportunity to study the phenomena of death. He charged me earnestly to suppress my grief, to concentrate wholly on the thoughts that passed through his mind when he could no longer express them, and
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…y seem, at least avoids the shallow theories about telepathy. From this time my powers constantly increased. I could read my husband's thoughts from imperceptible movements of his face as easily as a trained deaf-mute can sometimes read the speech of a distant man from the movements of his lips. Gradually as we worked, day by day, I found my grasp of detail ever fuller. It is not only that I could read emotions; I could tell whether he was thinking 3465822 or 3456822. In the year following my illness we made 436 experiments of this kind, each…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…st unusual in several respects. (1) I have never known her inaccurate in any state- ment of veritable fact. (2) She can undoubtedly read thoughts in an aston- ishing manner. In particular, she is actually useful to me by her ability to foretell attacks of acute insanity in my patients. Some hours before they occur she can predict them to a minute. On an early occasion my disbelief in her power led to the dangerous wounding of one of my attendants. (3) She combines a fixed determination of suicide (in the extraordinary manner described by her) w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
…e- tails, each one clear, vivid and prolonged, it occupied but three seconds of earthly time. I considered the incalculable array of the thoughts in his well-furnished mind; I saw that thousands of years would not exhaust them. But, perhaps, when the brain was destroyed beyond recognition of its component parts We have always casually assumed that conscious- ness depends upon a proper flow of blood in the vessels of the brain; we have never stopped to think whether the records might not be excited in some other manner.
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
…ty of helping him. I analysed the position. It must be his thought, or I could not read it. I had no reason to conjecture that any other thoughts could reach me. He must be alive in the true sense of the word; it was he and not another that
1929 · PDF PAGE 4
…t the shadow of an eyebrow against the memory of my great- grandmother? The Englishman protested that nothing had been further from his thoughts. I suppose so, proceeded the other more qui- etly. And the more, perhaps, that I am a convicted murderer. Bevan was now fairly alarmed. I am proud of it, continued Duguesclin. At the age of twenty-five my blood was more fiery than it is to- day. I married. Four years later I found my wife in the embraces of a neighbour. I slew him. I slew her. I slew our three children, for vipers breed only vi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
… the scandal of the neighbourhood. Colonel Grahame, too, rather got on Bugg's nerves, in spite of the honour of his acquaintance. Such thoughts went dully through his mind as he waited in the garden for his daughter to come in to tea from the Art Class. But when she arrived, portfolio in hand, her beauty and the splendour of her long easy swing determined him to be gracious. Under such circumstances conversation is apt to be artificial; but Gertrude was gay and garrulous, and the tea went very pleasantly until her father's eye unluckily fel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
…mined to be more than ever on his guard. You will understand with what joy, continued Duguesclin, innocent or careless of the sinister thoughts which occupied his companion, I received and an- swered this unmistakable token of friendship. That day no further opportunity of intercourse occurred, but I nar- rowly watched him on the morrow, and saw that he was