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J. W. Dunne : An Experiment with Time

'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

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