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Roberts
Marshall
Louisiana
Tom
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[... 37 paragraphs ...]
—at the thought of taking one person’s word as standing for absolute truth. Hence his discomfort in taking dictation of even a simple letter that must be transcribed in faithful replica to the words and ideas of another.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
As a secretary, our dear Ruburt will simply not succeed. At least not as the sort of secretary now required. Taking down someone else’s words, verbatim, is to Ruburt, because of his own creative ability an inferior position.
The one exception here would be taking down verbatim the words of someone who Ruburt was convinced had superior creative ability or knowledge.
[... 38 paragraphs ...]
(It is, again, a Ouija board experiment Jane and I tried on Friday, July 3, 1964 at 10:05 PM. We sat at the board to begin without asking questions. Misspellings are included as received. I made verbatim notes as we went along. The words yes and no, spelled out on the board, are here indicated in parentheses whenever the pointer moved to them.
[... 28 paragraphs ...]
(“What does the word mean?”)
[... 53 paragraphs ...]
(“That’s the way Jane spells that word.”)
[... 12 paragraphs ...]
(Three times the pointer moved to the above word on the board. Both of us were surprised. Joking, I asked Jane what she was doing to the pointer.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
(This time, the pointer did begin to move, quite slowly. It gradually picked up speed while Jane wrote down each letter it paused over. No sense emerged from the series. It might be added here that out of a whole page of strings of letters, there were no instances of accidental spellings of words—not even short words like to, as, but, is, on, etc. It was almost as though either the pointer or myself deliberately chose to produce nothing at all recognizable.
[... 51 paragraphs ...]
(Later, I heard an unidentified voice say from below the field of vision of my right eye, “George, Allan is quite concerned—” or words to that effect. The sentence was left unfinished; at least I didn’t hear it all.
[... 28 paragraphs ...]
(Jane: Sat. 7/4, PM: I looked up at a tall tree and felt as though I was going to levitate up to it. A strong jerk of my feet snapped me out of the state. I then heard Rob’s mother say approximately these words: “You’re taking me back with you, whether you know it or not...” Then I heard “The investigation,” in an unidentified voice.)
