Cathy’s speech in Wuthering Heights - I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me like wine through water and altered the colour of my mind - taken by Neville as Emily Brontë’s own testimony rather than a character’s, on the ground that there was no Cathy save in her imagination. He uses it for the irreversibility of vision: she must have awakened in a dream one day, and from that moment she could not be the same. The wine cannot be got back out of the water; the mind stays coloured. His own form of the claim is put beside it at 1930 - I can say with Brontë the same thing happened to me; how could I ever be what I was after the vision, when the vision is more real than you are here now, far more real, more alive. At 1909 it is turned into an argument for persistence in the technique: you may fail a thousand times to awaken in the daydream you are having of a friend, but you cannot deny that you once did, and that he was there as you had imagined him.