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(Break at 9:30. Jane was fairly well dissociated. Her voice had acquired a strong edge and had been fairly loud. Concerning her accent, which I have called a brogue, Lorraine and Bill Gallagher said they thought of it as a cultivated, well-educated accent acquired perhaps by one who had spent some time in Ireland, for instance, then moved on to live in another country—England, for instance.

(Break at 9:11. Jane reported that she was fairly well dissociated for a first delivery. Her voice had again acquired a touch of that peculiar accent, or brogue as I call it. She resumed in the same active manner, with a bit louder voice, at 9:19.)

(End at 10:20. Jane had been well dissociated as usual. A lively discussion now developed among us as to the nature and possible origin of the brogue or accent Jane had displayed during most of the session.

(The discussion was sparked because of Seth/Jane’s pronunciation of the words “fate” and “stock” in particular, and others similar. Bill and Lorraine did not believe the accent to be Irish, even considering Jane’s early years in an Irish neighborhood and her association with Irish priests.

(Seth:) My accent isn’t difficult to understand. Now all of you have different accents. I have an eternal accent. [...]

([Sheri:] “The accent, at first, is a little hard to understand....”

I have a cosmopolitan accent. You have an accent to me. [...]

(Pete remarked Seth’s accent sounded Indian.)

(During break Florence remarked Seth’s accent was sophisticated.)

[...] Languages also have accents, each somewhat different while still maintaining the original integrity of any given language. To some extent you can learn to speak yourself with an accent, so to speak — say that I smiled — in which case, still being yourself, you allow yourself to take on some of the attributes of another “language.”

[...] I equate this accent with an Irish accent, though the two are not exactly alike as far as I know.)

[...] The “secrets” of languages are not to be found, then, in the available sounds, accents, root words or syllables, but in the rhythms between the words; the pauses and hesitations; the flow with which the words are put together, and the unsaid inferences that connect verbal and visual data.

[...] In any case he will be replaced by a man with white or whitish blonde hair—light hair, initially from the Midwest, and he may have an accent. [...]

[...] Malba’s pronunciation was something like Deka-tur, with the accent on the first syllable.

(Long pause at 9:27.) In a way, physically you are a molecular language that communicates to others, but a language with its own peculiarities, as if speaking an accepted tongue you spoke with a biological accent that carried its own flavor and meaning.

[...] I have a peculiarity of voice and accent that is, if I may say so myself, unique and individualistic. [...]

The inner and outer egos do not have a cementlike relationship, but can interrelate with each other in almost infinite fashions, still preserving the reality of physical experience, but varying the accents put upon it by the inner areas of subjective life. [...]

[...] Seth’s voice, coming through her in his own unique accent, can be as gentle as a whisper or as ear-splitting as he desires when he wants to make a point. [...]

[...] And again, the peculiar accent that Bill Gallagher insists is not an Irish brogue, was in evidence at times during the session.)

(Seth speaks with an accent that’s hard to pinpoint. [...]

[...] I heard his southern accent clearly. [...]

[...] By this I mean that when she speaks for Seth her voice drops in register, becomes somewhat stronger, and acquires Seth’s own deliberate but unique accent and rhythm. [...]

To one extent or another, all of the events of their lives happen punctuated or accented by the possibility of disaster. [...]

[...] They were enunciated in Seth’s own peculiarly accented tones; accompanied by gestures in a living performance that I hope the reader will keep in mind.

[...] Her Seth accent however, was quite unique. [...]

(By now Jane’s accent, which might be termed a brogue of sorts, had become quite noticeable.)