A ship's captain imagines command and receives a year of work

A San Francisco ship's captain and pilot, whom he had met backstage after one of his meetings, wrote to him - the letter arrived yesterday morning - recalling how the Union had restricted him to certain waters by seniority; Neville had had him imagine the lecture room was the bridge of his ship at sea, and the man is now in Vancouver carrying lumber down to Panama with a year's work ahead of him.
Date (happened)
Yesterday morning’s mail
unresolved
  1. Yesterday morning’s mail relative
    Source Awakened Imagination 2 ¶16"Yesterday morning’s mail", told in Awakened Imagination 2 (nid 2026)
    Said as Yesterday morning’s mail
Persons
Told
  1. c. 1954 estimated · probable
    Source Awakened Imagination 2 ¶16passage 551836 (lecture nid 2026 'Awakened Imagination 2'), delivery claim d0 circa 1954/probable (Einstein epigraph matching the 1954 book Awakened Imagination)
    Reasoning Passage 551836 is Neville reading out and expounding the ship captain/pilot's letter directly ('Yesterday morning's mail brought me one, where, in San Francisco, this captain, a pilot...'). The lecture containing this passage, nid 2026, has only one delivery claim, a year-only circa 1954 estimate (probable, from the Einstein epigraph matching his book Awakened Imagination's 1954 publication). No month or day is given by any evidence, so the telling inherits that same year-only precision and probable confidence.
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Source

  • Awakened Imagination 2 ¶16 (Yesterday morning’s mail brought me one, where, in San Francisco, this captain, a pilot, and he writes me that I saw him backstage after one of my meetings, and there he said, “But Neville, you are up against a stone wall. I am a trained pilot; I have go…)