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Ow while the things which “X” in the following letters advised America to do, before America came into the war,…

Date of account: Published 1919
Source: Last letters from the living dead man
Reference: Last letters from the living dead man · selected passage 13
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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ow while the things which “X” in the following letters advised America to do, before America came into the war, were the very things which we did after we came into the war and which we could not have done except as war measures, our entrance was not written down as a specific prophecy in these letters

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ow while the things which “X” in the following letters advised America to do, before America came into the war, were the very things which we did _after_ we came into the war and which we could not have done except as war measures, our entrance was not written down as a specific prophecy in these letters. Any startling prophecy has always had a tendency to shake me out of the passive state in which automatic writing is possible. _But_--during the weeks from February to April, 1917, in the hypnogogic state preceding sleep, I several times heard, “We are coming into the war.” Of course I did not write that down in the manuscript, as _it was not a part of the manuscript_. What is heard is heard, what is written is written. I merely mention it as a curious phenomenon for it was probably the synthesis of the _deeper levels_ of my unconscious.

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