The agent’s third drawing was of an hourglass, with sand running from its upper to its lower part (Fig. [133]). The resemblance in shape of the percipient’s tree (Fig. [133a]) to the upper half of the hourglass is evident, its trunk may represent the slender line of flowing sand, and “white” sand is placed relatively like the sand in the lower part of the hourglass. The percipient’s results seem to be partly from the lines of the original drawing, but also from Mr. Sinclair’s thoughts about the sand.
Mr. Sinclair’s fourth drawing represents an animal (dog?) running after a ball attached to a string (Fig. [9]). Mrs. Sinclair’s drawing shows (a) an animal, (b) also running, (c) in the same direction, (d) having a short tail as in the original, (e) the tail represented by two diverging lines, (f) a line extending from its nose, but touching the nose, while there is a space between in the original, (g) the line running left and at about the same angle from the horizontal. Besides the script which appears in the cut (Fig. [9a]) Mrs. Sinclair wrote “Long thing like rope flung out in front of him.”
I should say that the addition of that “rope” drawn in front of the animal at that angle made chance guessing of the combination at least ten times as unlikely, and, on the basis of my hundreds of experiments in guessing, I should not expect in ten thousand such experiments on the basis of the same original drawing one reproduction as good in the summation of its correspondences.
Series of March 11, 1929
1. Agt., a fountain which, were it taken alone, might be taken for a tree, standing in what superficially appears like a long shallow tub-like structure (Fig. [53]); Per., a long, shallow tub, with two tree-like objects above it and on its rim, (2) a drawing, the upper portion of which parts in the center and leans to either side, as does the fountain. The tree or plant-like objects are both said to “shine,” which does not so well comport with a tree or plant as with a fountain sparkling in the sunshine (Fig. [53a]).
2. Agt., a melon on an inclined plane, having a stem and leaf on the stem; Per., three drawings: (1) what suggests the leaf and stem of the original twice over, (2) an unnameable figure, but slanting like the original, (3) what looks like some kind of fruit with stem, also slanting like the original.
3. Agt., the figure 6 followed by the mark indicating per cent, not single-line drawn but having breadth as if cut out of cardboard; Per., the letter F, a failure except for the curious parallel that this also is formed as if made with strips of cardboard.
4. Agt., a fishhook (Fig. [78]); Per., (1) a figure very much like the fishhook except that the barb is transformed into a tiny flower (Fig. [78a]).
5. Agt., an obelisk (Fig. [79]); Per., two drawings, the first of which shows the three long lines of the obelisk but with a slight curvature (Fig. [79a]).[[18]]
6. Agt., as in Figure 80; Per., as in Figure 80a. Only point of resemblance the two angles formed by the legs of the reclining seat.