Events involving this person
Ray Leigh revises a coworker's complaint about eligible men
Description
Ray Leigh wrote that a woman in his office complained there were no decent eligible men, so he revised the conversation twice in one day and six weeks later she spent twenty minutes describing the marvellous man now dating her.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 10 May 1968
Told
21 June 1968
Sources
- Source: Imagination, the Real Man ¶4 (In his letter he said, “There is a woman in my office and we all love her, a sweet, sweet lady. She gave us this long, long harangue about the absence of decent men in this world who are eligible for marriage and such an enormous number of riffraff, just…)
Ray Leigh imagines approval and effortlessly completes a news review
Description
Ray Leigh had put off writing a news review for his associate's client; hearing the Monday appointment set, he imagined his associate saying at five o'clock that it was just fine, then wrote four pages effortlessly and the associate said exactly that.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. June 1968
(probable)
Told
21 June 1968
Sources
- Source: Imagination, the Real Man ¶5 (“What would have taken me hours and possibly days to have written, I simply sat down quietly and in my Imagination I saw that it was five o’clock and that he had read what I’d given him, and that he said to me, ‘Just fine, it’s just fine!’)
between 15 June 1968 and 21 June 1968
Neville received two letters from Ray Leigh that week telling the stories he goes on to relate.
A woman stands on water and instructs others to water ski
Description
A woman wrote Neville about two dreams in which she stood on water instructing others to water ski, and Ray Leigh appeared beside her and twice assured her she had instructed them perfectly.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 15 June 1968 and 21 June 1968
Told
21 June 1968
Sources
- Source: Imagination, the Real Man ¶2 (She said, “I had a dream that happened this past week. I found myself standing on water and I was instructing others how to water ski. But I was standing on water. It didn’t seem strange or unnatural. Then suddenly I looked at my side and here is Ray Lei…)
Ray Leigh recognizes his flower-planting dream fulfilled
Description
The friend's letter continues with a night dream of the previous winter that he found himself living out in detail while planting summer flowers with his wife and youngest son.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 16 June 1968
- 16 June 1968
Told
- 20 June 1968
- 21 June 1968
Sources
- Source: Walk on Water ¶6 (My friend continued his letter, saying: “There are certain things in my life I do not understand. Last Sunday, as my wife, our youngest son, and I were planting summer flowers, I realised that I was experiencing – in detail – what I had dreamed as happen…)
- Source: Imagination, the Real Man ¶7 (“I am in the yard with my wife and my younger son, and we are planting summer flowers to replace the dead ones of the winter. Suddenly I look at my wife, I look at my son, and I am seeing and hearing in detail, word for word, scene for scene, what I had …)
Ray Leigh revises a reprimand and imagines a better job for a man
Description
Ray Leigh revised a story of a man unmercifully bawled out by his bosses into one of praise; the man quit anyway with no backlog and, after Ray heard him with a better job, started a new job with no day of lost salary and a twenty-five percent increase.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
20 June 1968
Told
21 June 1968
Sources
- Source: Imagination, the Real Man ¶9 (Then he said, “I told you a story of a man who was bawled out unmercifully by his bosses. I heard the story and I revised it, and I heard him being praised by his bosses in the immediate present.)