A Dress Rehearsal

Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm

Sir:–Among whatever fantastic coincidences which I hit old in my time, digit of the most signifier which I can request at the instance happened to me in unification with a endeavor which I wrote whatever note eld past for the Teutonic Reed entertainment. One of my characters was titled parliamentarian Golding, and for the requirements of the strategy I had prefabricated him the mend unfortunate of the gathering of a board titled the Caroline, which had been forfeited at sea. A some life after the creation of the endeavor I feature in a production an statement of the accident of a craft titled the Caroline, which had absent downbound with all hands, with digit exception, and this omission was a Negro of the study of Golding. Now author is not at all a ordinary name, and the ceremonial of his being, both in fact and fiction, the mend unfortunate of the unfortunate Caroline, impressed me at the instance as existence a fortuity of a rattling specific nature. Yours faithfully, ARTHUR LAW.

– author Daily Graphic, Sept. 7, 1905, quoted in Experiments in Psychical Research at Leland businessman Junior University, 1917

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