“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(See my dream notebook. I had a dream in which I returned to comic work on September 13,1966—about five weeks ago. This dream also involved a friend at my present job, at Artistic Card Co., and that part of the dream also worked out.

(See the copy of the envelope object on page 115 and the notes on the next page. As stated the object was a bill for art supplies from The Art Shop. Jane had never seen the object; I obtained it today, October 24, from Marjorie Buck, the proprietor, when I bought pencils and paper stumps with which to do the job my old friend, Bill Ward, mailed to me over the weekend. The job arrived yesterday. See the notes on page 116 for an explanation here, since these facts enter into the envelope data, we believe.

(“A mistake or error.” Jane said this stems from the last time she personally saw Marjorie; this was perhaps five weeks ago when Jane was job hunting; this activity of Jane crops up later in the data also. Jane stopped at The Art Shop to buy me a pint can of gesso. Marjorie told Jane to help herself because she was not too familiar with the location of all the stock.

(“A connection with a particular event that was social. And perhaps had a connection with a school or sports.” This is good data, and is related to the object through Marjorie Buck. As stated on page 120 after the “mistake” data, the last time Jane saw Marjorie was when job hunting. Before stopping in at The Art Shop to buy the gesso for me, Jane had applied at the local YWCA for a job. The job involved teaching children various games, for the school or sports connection.

(“A written note, with an appeal for an answer, or implied request.” I believe this is a reference to the letter Bill Ward sent me with the art work I received Sunday, October 23. Again, see the notes on page 116. Also keep in mind that the bill used as object represents pencils and paper stumps I bought in order to finish the job Bill sent to me.

(Bill’s letter outlined the steps necessary to finish the job, which consists of five pages of a comic type story, in pictures and text, for a men’s magazine. My job is to do the backgrounds and to add gray, black and white halftones with the pencils. Bill refers to any problems in his letter, how to get in touch with him, etc., and implies that I answer it. I have already done so.

(“With a rather rough, rather than perfectly smooth texture.” This is also good data, and refers to the surface characteristics of the illustration board upon which the job is executed. The board has a pleasing grainy texture typical of such material, and is far from smooth.

(“Some distant connection with a child.” No connections. Extra notation by Jane: Bill Ward, while asking Rob to do the job over phone, told him of death of Wendell’s child, a school boy. [Jane wrote boy but a girl died.]

(“An initiation or something for the first time.” The job sent to me by Bill is an initiation, since it is the first of its kind I have received from him—with the promise of more to come, incidentally. This also makes doing the art something for the “first time,” since I’ve never done this particular kind before. Many years ago, perhaps more than 15, I did other kinds of comic work; that was “serious” comic work.