Neville tells his audience that a friend sent him the June 1968 issue of Harper's Magazine, which recounted the story of a US Air Force captain, Dale Norte, who as a schoolboy had written an essay describing, in exact detail, a future court-martial of himself -- and years later was in fact court-martialed and sentenced to a year of hard labor exactly as his own essay foretold. He offers the story as proof that a vividly imagined and self-persuaded assumption becomes fact, asking, 'so what is fiction?'