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Two lectures (1119 and 3953) and the same five words as the mother's line, used for the opposite purpose. In Barbados, on a veranda with the waves coming in, Neville tells Jim - an artist and chef, a close friend of the family whom the Goddards looked after - that he has had these experiences. Jim answers in his own sweet, gentle way: But Neville, how could you have these experiences? You are a Goddard. Asked what that has to do with it, he explains: you're business people, you're all business people, and how could you have this experience? Neville works out the rule Jim was applying from his own life - born and raised Catholic, gave it up in his prime when he became a good artist, went back into the fold at the very end because he could only have such an experience if he were a Catholic - and states the conclusion as a fact about perception rather than as a complaint: here was a blind spot, and he could not let it get through. At 1119 the same exchange produces the answer about grace - piety hasn't a thing to do with God's grace, and the secret of his selective love is his secret (M586). Distinct from the mother's method, which uses the name to install a state; here the name is a filter that blocks a report. 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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But Neville, how could you have these experiences? You are a Goddard
here was a blind spot, and he could not actually — listen — he couldn’t let it get through

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to: -1
Passage revision:
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And he said to me, in his own sweet, gentle way, “But Neville, how could you have these experiences? You are a Goddard.” I said, “What on earth has that to do with it?”
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to: 576
Passage revision:
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And Jim just said to me, quite innocently, “But you are a Goddard.” And what I asked him, and what has that to do with it, then he explained: “You’re a businessman, all businessmen.”
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to: 691
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