6. Agt., two hearts side by side, transfixed horizontally by an arrow (Fig. [126]); Per., two balloon-like shapes side by side, transfixed horizontally by a line (Fig. [126a]).
7. Agt., a frieze (Fig. [124]); Per., what looks like a detail of a different design yet one which also consists of parallel lines enclosing narrow tracts which run in different directions (Fig. [124a]). Even so much of distant resemblance would not occur anything like once in ten times by chance.
Miscellaneous Examples
February 23, 1929. The agent drew a steamboat with incorrectly designed stem paddle wheel (Fig. [77]). The percipient’s results are very interesting (Figs. [77a], [77b], [77c]). There is smoke, so labeled, by itself, then the smoke stack with smoke issuing from it, then the paddle wheel in the water, its paddles more correctly placed externally to the rim, then what may mean smoke containing cinders. The cut of the paddle wheel has left out the axle-end, very distinctly indicated in the original pencil drawing.
February 17, 1929. The agent drew an Alpine hat with a feather (Fig. [142]). Of the shapes drawn by the percipient (Fig. 142a) the one on the right may very possibly be related to the rim and the band of the hat, the top left one is very suggestive of the feather, and the bottom one, though called in the script a “chafing dish,” is very like the hat. All this suggests that the attention of the agent was directed first to one part, then to another and another of his drawing.
February 29, 1929. The agent drew a very intricate and unusual cross, one with eight arms, notched at the ends (see Figs. 7, 7a). The percipient also drew a circle of notched arms, but seven in number. One would suppose that when she began she had no idea where the drawing would end, or it would be more regular.
Through all the experiments of the period covered by the book Mental Radio, and enough more to make 300, there is no other agent drawing resembling this. And nowhere is there another percipient drawing like it. Granting that the percipient should make such a drawing once, which was by no means certain (nothing like it appears among the 564 Guess-drawings reported in this Bulletin), then the chance of its coinciding in place with the eight-armed cross of the agent would be 1 in 300.
February 17, 1929. The agent drew an open umbrella, with curved handle (Fig. [122]). The percipient wrote, “I feel that it is a snake crawling out of something—vivid feeling of snake, but it looks like a cat’s tail.” And in her drawing (Fig. [122a]) we have the curved umbrella handle, but it has sprouted a tongue and an eye; the ellipse of the umbrella rim is retained but it is a smaller one; otherwise the “something” is shaped wrongly.
We have cited instances where Mrs. Sinclair proved that she got an inkling of some drawing in a series before reaching it, by writing down at the moment her conviction. In Mental Radio our attention is called to a number of instances of seeming anticipations even where Mrs. Sinclair was not so conscious of them, or at least did not write down her expectation that some particular thing was coming. Here is an instance not mentioned in the book. The next agent’s drawing after the umbrella was a snake. Had it not been for the dawning consciousness of that snake, the umbrella handle might not have undergone metamorphosis.[[19]]
February ?, 1929. The agent made an American flag, with pole surmounted by a ball (Fig. [127]). The percipient failed to get the stars but she got the stripes and the pole, and the ball, which last has wandered from its place, although the neighborhood in which it should be is sensed (Fig. [127a]).