“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are certain self-regulating devices at work here, psychologically speaking, that insure necessary periods of passivity and rest. In any well-balanced personality these operate automatically, as in Ruburt’s case.

A downtown location, in which he sometimes works. For a scientist he is himself rather long-winded, and can hardly afford to take me to task on that particular point.

(“A connection with a machine”, could refer to the fact that I did some of the work on my tracing-paper drawing on a darkroom machine that is called a Lacey-Luci. This is a bulky contraption containing floodlights, a ground glass, and a magnifying-reducing lens for fast juggling of copy or artwork to proper size. A machine of this type is a standard in most art departments.

(“Somehow cluttered, or full, and empty toward the outsides.” On the original tracing-paper drawing my pencil smudging on the back shows through easily, and gives the drawing a cluttered or crowded look in the center. By contrast it looks bare toward the edge of the circle. This is an effect I noticed at work while making the tracing, but the illusion disappeared on the finished art.