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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
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III.
Every
one,
I
suppose,
is
subject
to
a
trick
of
mind
which
often
puzzles
me.
I
am
reading
or
thinking,
and
at
a
moment,
without
any
association
or
suggestion
that
I
can
discover,
there
rises
before
me
the
vision
of
a
place
I
know.
Impossible
to
explain
why
that
particular
spot
should
show
itself
to
my
mind's
eye;
the
cerebral
impulse
is
so
subtle
that
no
search
may
trace
its
origin.
If
I
am
reading,
doubtless
a
thought,
a
phrase,
possibly
a
mere
word,
on
the
page
before
me
serves
to
awaken
memory.
If
I
am
otherwise
occupied,
it
must
be
an
object
seen,
an
odour,
a
touch;
perhaps
even
a
posture
of
the
body
suffices
to
recall
something
in
the
past.
Sometimes
the
vision
passes,
and
there
an
end;
sometimes,
however,
it
has
successors,
the
memory
working
quite
independently
of
my
will,
and
no
link
appearing
between
one
scene
and
the
next.
Ten
minutes
ago
I
was
talking
with
my
gardener.
Our
topic
was
the
nature
of
the
soil,
whether
or
not
it
would
suit
a
certain
kind
of
vegetable.
Of
a
sudden
I
found
myself
gazing
at--the
Bay
of
Avlona.
Quite
certainly
my
thoughts
had
not
strayed
in
that
direction.
The
picture
that
came
before
me
caused
me
a
shock
of
surprise,
and
I
am
still
vainly
trying
to
discover
how
I
came
to
behold
it.
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