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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

but he must, at the very least, have received more responses than any ordinary man could have handled without a secretary.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

This original correspondence was not preserved, but his notes formed a thorough and really significant digest.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Average people in society and business—New England’s traditional “salt of the earth”—gave an almost completely negative result, though scattered cases of uneasy but formless nocturnal impressions appear here and there, always between March 23d and April 2nd—the period of young Wilcox’s delirium.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Scientific men were little more affected, though four cases of vague description suggest fugitive glimpses of strange landscapes, and in one case there is mentioned a dread of something abnormal.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

That is why I continued to feel that Wilcox, somehow cognisant of the old data which my uncle had possessed, had been imposing on the veteran scientist.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

These responses from aesthetes told a disturbing tale.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

From February 28th to April 2nd a large proportion of them had dreamed very bizarre things, the intensity of the dreams being immeasurably the stronger during the period of the sculptor’s delirium.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Over a fourth of those who reported anything, reported scenes and half-sounds not unlike those which Wilcox had described;


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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