'He had been reading, she said, J.W. Dunne's "Experiment with Time" - also Einstein and Addington.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scientific detachment they advocate, for the life of me I couldn't help but look upon this as a warning and for weeks afterwards I was alarmingly apprehensive of disaster, though nothing did happen to justify this terrifying experience.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: unknown Print: Book
Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
[...]
9. Kenneth Nicholson read a monograph entitled “The English attitude towards
Games”. He warned us before he started that it was supposed to be funny as
indeed it was. [...]
10. It was getting late, but our Host hoped we would have one more subject so A.
G. Joselin spoke on “Serial Time”. He told us that any conception of time was
impossible without movement. He spoke of J. W. Dunne’s book “An Experiment
with Time” in which the author collects considerable data to prove that ones
dreams are as much about the future as about the past. The physicists present
appeared to be convinced, the rest were very sceptical. Arnold Joselin also gave
examples of the “series” meant by his title Serial Time — this after all proved to be
not such a very new idea for certainly a quarter of a century ago if not much
earlier than that one knew this series, e.g. “It was a dark and stormy night, three
robbers sat in a cave & one said to another ‘Antonio! Tell us a tale’ – and this is
how he began. It was….[”]
11. [...] with regret we had to keep the remaining subjects for another occasion.
These were Howard Smith on “The business Man” & Knox Taylor on “Vice”.
[signed as a true record by] R.D.L. Moore.
3. 4. 43. [at the club meeting held at School House: see Minute Book, p. 151.]'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Joselin Manuscript: Unknown
