Neville's lexical definition of prayer, taken from the concordance and cited to it, which converts prayer from a form of address into a form of movement: the word prayer means motion toward, accession to, nearness at, at or in the vicinity of. Nothing in that definition asks anyone to be heard. So praying successfully is moving toward the fulfilment of the dream in imagination and making natural everything that would be natural were it true - only through such action in imagination, he says, are prayers really answered. The consequences he draws from the four glosses are practical and specific. Motion toward means orienting oneself: being in New York City by thinking of one's world from there, friends north, friends south, friends in London. Accession to and nearness at mean stretching out and touching the thing - turning to one's wife and saying, this is what happened to me today, getting close to the picture and sharing it verbally, all in imagination, which he says is praying. And the definition is what lets him keep fasting in the text where the newer Bibles delete it: fasting is turning attention away from the states one formerly feasted on, and turning away from a former state toward another is itself motion toward, and therefore prayer.