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Neville repeatedly tries to lift Walter from his habitual gloom
Description
Over years of Walter's weekly visits Neville repeatedly tried and failed to pull him out of his gloom by insisting that imagining creates reality.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 5 February 1965
Told
- 5 February 1965
- 5 February 1965
Sources
- Source: Tloa Lecturethe Sower ¶4 (I would say, “Walter, what are you doing? Don’t you believe what I’m talking about? Imagining creates reality! That’s my premise, and every time you come home you talk about Hitler, you talk about this, you talk about the other. I don’t care what he has …)
Walter loses recent memory after being beaten unconscious
Description
A man telephoned Neville the day before yesterday asking him to call their mutual friend Walter, a sixty-two-year-old actor from Vienna who has lost a whole section of his memory after being beaten unconscious; Walter remembered Neville and the film An Affair in Trinidad but nothing since, and Neville reflects that Walter's lifelong gloom, which he could never talk him out of at his New York lectures and home, produced this.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
3 February 1965
Told
5 February 1965
Sources
- Source: Tloa Lecturethe Sower ¶3 (So I called him and he remembered me, just all excited, ”Oh, Neville, so nice of you to call. I was wounded.” I said, “You were wounded? When?” He said, “I was wounded in Trinidad.”)
Walter loses time after a violent incident in Trinidad
Description
Neville tells of his friend Walter, a painter who lost a block of time after allegedly being struck by a jealous friend on the docks in Trinidad; Walter believes he was shot there and is now confined to a home for the rest of his life.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 7 October 1968
Told
7 October 1968
Sources
- Source: The Most Precious Gift ¶33 (Nevertheless, my friend Walter is in this home for the rest of his earthly days with a large section of time completely missing.)