“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Connection with an event not repeated.” I bought two sheets, 4 x 8 feet, at the lumberyard in Wellsburg on July 15. Since this particular kind of Masonite is hard to find and the Schuyler lumberyard had a good supply, I decided to return to Wellsburg on Saturday, July 23, to buy two more full sheets. But in the interim I figured out a method to coat the Masonite for paintings that obviated the use of any special kind of Masonite, and thus did not return to Wellsburg.

(The death connection enters in because the bill was filled out by the worker at the lumberyard who obtained and cut the Masonite so it would fit into our station wagon. The worker—whose name we do not know, but could easily learn—became quite talkative when he learned I planned to use the Masonite as support for paintings. He described to us in some detail how he had a portrait of himself drawn during the Second World War, when he was overseas. War…death. The conversation was unusual in that the worker explained how the artist drew his face as though it was symmetrical, whereas in reality it is quite asymmetrical, with an impaired eye.

(The object shows I bought two full sheets of Masonite, each one 4 x 8 feet in dimension. The worker previously mentioned at the lumberyard cut the sheets in half so that we could load them into the car. This gave four pieces of Masonite, each one of which was four feet square.

(“And perhaps with water.” This could stem from the wells in Wellsburg, as explained earlier, or from the fact that Jane would have preferred going to Enfield Glen to swim, instead of buying Masonite. Also, we planned to go swimming locally after getting the Masonite, but became so busy we did not do so.

[...] This woven texture was another reason for my buying canvas, rather than smooth boards for instance, such as Masonite.

[...] The object is trimmed from the linen canvas I bought at the Art Shop, and this piece of canvas was glued on to large sheets of Masonite so as to have a firm support—the experiment I had in mind which was referred to later.

[...] A larger interpretation would be that I applied the linen canvas to large rectangular pieces of Masonite, with the idea of painting on these. [...]

[...] These are tack holes spaced rather close together around each piece of canvas, because the linen exerts a strong pull when wet; it had to be securely fastened to the Masonite panels, until dry.

Rob had purchased two four-by-eight-foot pieces of Masonite and a roller pan. The salesman who waited on us became quite talkative when he learned that Rob was going to use the Masonite for paintings. [...]

[...] Rob had the two pieces of Masonite cut in half so they’d fit into our car. [...]

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[...] I don’t often use such panels, usually thinking them not permanent enough; I almost always prefer Masonite, etc.

[...] Actually, I’d been cutting masonite and gluing canvas on panels all day. [...]