Let us now inspect a complete and long series of February 15, 1929. It contains no such brilliant success as in Experiment 4 of February 20, but out of 13 experiments there is but one absolute failure, the first. In this the agent drew a rat, the percipient two crossed objects like keys.
2. In Figure 147, the agent’s drawing represents a door with lattice on the upper half; it is made up of perpendicular and horizontal lines only. The percipient’s drawing (Fig. [147a]) consists of four perpendicular lines finishing at the top in curves like fish-hooks, and these lines are crossed by three horizontal lines. There is in the crossed lines a suggestion of the agent’s drawing, a resemblance greater than to any other of the thirteen.
Fig. 147
Fig. 147a
3. The agent’s next drawing (Fig. [93]) represents a sun over hills. Mrs. Sinclair first seems to have got the notion of a sun, which was right (Fig. [93a]). Then she made another circle and put features in it, as will be seen suggested in the agent’s drawing (actually, in the original drawing, the features are plainly to be seen). Then she got the idea of something stretching out below it with curving lines, interpreted it to be a body, so probably, from mere inference, clapped her sun with features on to it.
4. Agent’s Figure 97 is a butterfly but the percipient did not get the idea of a butterfly (Fig. [97a]). However, the divergent lines and the spots, five instead of four, and similarly placed, do seem to bear a relation to it.
5. In Figure 96a, Mrs. Sinclair’s drawing resembles a part of her husband’s (Fig. [96]), although she misinterpreted her mental picture. What she thought to be the leg of an animal, and which she drew twice, was judged by the way it bends to be a front one, but the knee of the leg roughly corresponds with the elbow of the pipe. Note that she seems to have got the bulge at the end of the pipe, translating it into a “foot,” naturally at the end of the leg.
6. In Figures 98 and 98a, compare the three “sparks” with the three crosses on the box.