Neville sees a Welsh Socialist politician fail to fly in vision

One night in vision Neville saw a now-dead Welsh Socialist politician, a great opponent of Churchill, repeatedly put a huge branch on his head like a stag's antlers and try to leap from a cliff and float, falling flat on his face each time — showing that what must grow from within cannot be put on from the outside, as the man was trying to do with Socialism in England; Neville adds that he told this story once in San Francisco and the reaction was so strange he has not told it since.
Date (happened)
one night
unresolved
  1. one night relative · probable
    Source The Dreamer ¶36"one night", told in The Dreamer (nid 1895)
    Said as one night
    counted from The Dreamer
  2. one night relative · probable
    Source "one night", told in The Dreamer (nid 2201)
Place
No place
Persons
Told / reported
  1. 23 February 1965 estimated · probable
    Source The Dreamerdelivery claim d1 on lecture nid=1895: 1965-02-23 exact/probable, state=confirmed, recovered from the chrome dateline '2/23/65' agreeing across two independent carriers, consistent with d0's after-1948 bound and with the politician (probably Aneurin Bevan, d. 1960) being described as now dead.
    Reasoning Passage 548132 is Neville recounting, in his own voice, the vision of the Welsh Socialist politician failing to fly, and noting he had told the story once before in San Francisco -- this passage's telling is the one being dated here. The owning lecture nid=1895 is dated 1965-02-23 by its most precise, confirmed delivery claim, so this telling inherits that date at the same exact/probable precision.
Sources

Source

  • The Dreamer ¶36 (I recall vividly, one night—-and I told this story in San Francisco and there was such a strange reaction I haven’t told it since—-but I saw this politician.)
  • The Dreamer ¶36 (And I saw him take this tree and put it on his head — huge branch, all that, a huge big stem — and he tried to jump off this cliff and plow through the world, and he fell flat on his face.)