[2] Glossolalia signifies the “gift of tongues,” or the ability to speak foreign languages without having consciously acquired them.
[3] This term is used to designate the visions which manifest themselves at the moment of awakening from sleep immediately prior to complete awakening, and which form a pendant to the well-known, much more frequent hypnagogic hallucinations, arising in the intermediate state between sleep and waking.
[4] Vision relating to the Oriental cycle; the man was the Arab sheik, the father of Simandini.
[5] The following are some of these impromptu rhymes, surely up to the level of the circumstances which inspired them, but by which we ought not to judge the conscious poetic faculties of Mlle. Smith:
To a little girl proud of her new shoes:
“Marcelle est là, venez la voir,
Elle a ses petits souliers noirs.”
In a “culinary” discussion:
“Vous détestez les omelettes,
Autant que moi les côtelettes.”