The method Neville took out of a vision and then taught for the rest of his life, in about twelve lectures (1079, 1161, 1194, 1350, 1448, 1752, 1823, 1859, 3955). In spirit he found himself inside one of the great Fifth Avenue mansions, invisible and fully awake, with three generations present: the grandfather invisible but permeating the house, the son telling the grandchildren how the fortune was made. Your grandfather would stand on an empty lot and say, I remember when this was an empty lot, and then paint a word picture of his desire for that lot so vividly that those who heard him could see it rise before their eyes. The technique is a tense: the memory is asserted of the present state, which implies that the present state is over. Neville spells out the grammar both ways and is explicit that it cuts in both directions - I remember when he had nothing implies he now has something; I remember when he had much implies he now has little; I remember when he was healthy implies he is not. You can use it in the most destructive way in the world or in the most constructive way; man is the operant power, he makes the decision and is responsible for his decision. Applied to himself the examples are his own failures - I remember when I had nothing, when no one knew me, when I couldn't sell a book. Distinct from M893, which holds the doubling of the vision, though both belong to this night: he woke, wrote it down, went back to bed and re-dreamed the dream with himself as the grandfather, and the doubling is what fixed it. PROVENANCE. Coined out of sequence at the request of the attach lane, which found the passages while attaching other motifs and reported that nothing in the catalogue held them. The canonical and the occurrences below were read in full before coining; the rest of the corpus-wide set was supplied by the lane and is attached, not read, so the occurrences here carry confidence 0.95 rather than 0.99.
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I remember when this was an empty lot
he would paint a word picture of his desire for that lot so vividly that those who heard him could see it rise before their eyes
You can use it in the most destructive way in the world or in the most constructive way
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I told them that I remember when this was an empty lot and I painted it so vividly that the very stones molded themselves into the structure of that which I painted.
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I remember when I had nothing. I remember when no one knew me. I remember when I couldn’t sell a book. I remember when I couldn’t sell anything that I wrote.
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You can say, I remember when he had nothing, which would imply that now he has something. You can say, I remember when he had much, which would imply that now he has little or nothing.
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“Your grandfather would stand on an empty lot and say, ‘I remember when this was an empty lot,’ and then he would paint a word picture of his desire for that lot so vividly that those who heard him could see it rise before their eyes.”
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