Record Number: 30647

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

9. Kenneth Nicholson read a monograph entitled “The English attitude towards Games”. He warned us before he started that it was supposed to be funny as indeed it was. [...]

10. It was getting late, but our Host hoped we would have one more subject so A. G. Joselin spoke on “Serial Time”. He told us that any conception of time was impossible without movement. He spoke of J. W. Dunne’s book “An Experiment with Time” in which the author collects considerable data to prove that ones dreams are as much about the future as about the past. The physicists present appeared to be convinced, the rest were very sceptical. Arnold Joselin also gave examples of the “series” meant by his title Serial Time — this after all proved to be not such a very new idea for certainly a quarter of a century ago if not much earlier than that one knew this series, e.g. “It was a dark and stormy night, three robbers sat in a cave & one said to another ‘Antonio! Tell us a tale’ – and this is how he began. It was….[”]

11. [...] with regret we had to keep the remaining subjects for another occasion. These were Howard Smith on “The business Man” & Knox Taylor on “Vice”.


[signed as a true record by] R.D.L. Moore. 3. 4. 43. [at the club meeting held at School House: see Minute Book, p. 151.]'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

2 Mar 1943

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Arnold Joselin

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Quaker or associated with the Friends

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Members of the XII Book Club

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Arnold Joselin

Title:

Serial Time

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Philosophy, Science

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30647

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

145–151

Additional Information:

Margaret Dilks was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1940 to 1970. It is inferred from this, and from the handwriting, that she was the author of this set of minutes.

Citation:

Margaret Dilks, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943), private collection, 145–151, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30647, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php).