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(Jane has also been trying contemplation, and has observed the beginnings of a few achievements, after a long period without success in psychological time.

(It will be recalled that in the 63rd session, page 159, Seth gave us an August 12-15 date for Miss Callahan. That period, signifying what we do not know, begins today. I mentioned it to Jane this morning, but had no plans to ask Seth about it tonight.

(Both of us slept until 8:40 this evening. Jane was not nervous before the session, and again did not begin dictating until 9:01. Again, her voice was quiet and deliberate, and she used many pauses. By contrast, her pacing was quite rapid at the beginning of the session, and remained so until near the end. Her eyes darkened as usual.)

(Break at 9:35. Jane was dissociated as usual. She resumed in the same quite manner, with frequent pauses and her fast pacing, at 9:41.)

(Break at 10:04. Jane was dissociated as usual. My writing hand felt no fatigue. The nature of the material to follow will reveal the subject of our discussion at break. When she resumed, Jane’s voice changed to fit the subject, as it often does during delivery.

(For the first part of this session, her delivery had been very deliberate and businesslike, almost as though personalities involved were rather unimportant. As soon as personalities became involved in the material however, Jane’s voice became quite amused, and displayed many humorous inflections. Resume at 10:14, with no more pauses.)

(Now Jane perched on the back of the couch as she talked, and remained there for some time. She spoke very earnestly, using many gestures. It might be added that the letter referred to above was one received from the regional office of the Veterans Administration, in N.Y.C.: The letter characterized the dirt road leading up to the property as a “trail,” and stated the request for a loan was denied unless the veteran, meaning myself, could be assured that the road would be maintained by either city or county at no additional expense to the veteran. This could not be done, since at this time the road is classed as private, and must be maintained by whoever lives on the property.)

(Jane stared at me from her perch on the couch.

(This may be, but the bank loan offered Jane and me was quite a bit more expensive, and we did not feel we wanted to take on the added expense. It included borrowing to meet the down payment—a double mortgage, so to speak, and we wanted none of this.)

(Jane had left the couch, and now she rapped on the table before me for emphasis.)

(It might be worth noting here that the property was appraised by an assessor from Ithaca, NY, rather than one from Elmira. As it happened, at the time all three of the Veteran’s Administration appraisers who are based in Elmira were out of town on vacation; therefore the bank in Elmira had to call in a representative from out of town to evaluate the property—and one who had never seen the property before. Jane and I have speculated as to what the assessor’s report might have stated had it been compiled by a local man familiar with the property.)

(Jane laughed. She was now sitting across the table from me as she dictated. This session is one of the very few in which she has been off her feet for any length of time at all.)

(End at 10:55. Jane was dissociated as usual. Still sitting across the table from me, she remarked that if Seth had promised, earlier, to maintain the road to the house for us, she would have gone through with the deal. I jokingly answered that if Seth had done something about the traffic noise rolling up the mountainside, I would have gone through with the purchase. Jane then resumed dictation at 10:56, sitting where she was.)

(My writing hand was now very tired, for the last part of the session had been quite fast. Jane told me that Seth was still with us. I had a question to ask, but hesitated to voice it until she finally surrendered with a laugh. It was simply whether the heating system, which I had accepted without alarm as being okay, would have performed better for us than the previous tenant. After the deal had fallen through, Jane accidentally heard that the heating bills in winter were exorbitant—about twice what we had been led to expect. If so, they would have made the house too expensive for us.

(Jane then resumed again as she sat opposite me. She had, again, been dissociated while delivering the last brief material. Resume now at 11:05.)

(End at 11:18. Jane was dissociated as usual. Strangely, my writing hand felt much better.)