Four lectures (1249, 1250, 1412, 3958), and at 1249 it comes with the dream that produced it. He is in an occupied area under German control, knows he is dreaming, and a soldier questions him in German, then French, then every tongue, to humiliate the English-speaking world; he answers only that he speaks English. Asked where he was born he says Barbados, in the West Indies, and the soldier says, then you must be a Negro, all West Indians are Negroes - because in his eyes Negroes were the very lowest in the world, and they the Nordic, being German, most of all they were the best. Neville's response in the dream is silence, and his comment afterwards is the motif: it doesn't really matter whether I'm a Negro or not; I know I'm Nordic, as far as races go, but whether I am Nordic or black as the ace of spades, what does it matter if I know who I am? The argument is not that race is unimportant but that it is a garment, and he is already wearing a second one that the senses cannot reach - you are brought out always clothed in a garment that transcends the limitation of the senses. The dream ends with him exercising that power rather than arguing: standing before the tribunal he inwardly chuckles, opens his spiritual eye, vanishes from them and wakes laughing. Restated without the dream at 1250 (whether he is black as the ace of spades or the blue-eyed blond child, he is still the child of God) and at 3958. 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.