As a boy of five or six he would know in advance which night it would come, and lying in the big bed beside his brothers he would become an infinite ocean and also the wave on its back, tossing and catching himself; it terrified him and lasted until puberty, when it vanished.
Date (happened)
between 1910 and 1911
unresolved
- between 1910 and 1911
- c. 1910
Place
Persons
Told / reported
- 6 February 1964
- 6 February 1964
Sources
Source
- In a Vision of the Night ¶31 (But then I would become the ocean, an infinite ocean; and then, not only was I the ocean but I was the wave on the ocean’s back.)
- In a Vision of the Night ¶31 ("a boy of maybe five or six" (lecture, 1964))