Yet (and Here Is The Main Point Of Indelicacy) My
more constant day-dreams now centre around fantasies of power. I become Prime Minister: I have devoted much of my life to the study of physics and have specialised in radiology:......
It Is A Strange Fact That Most Of My Day-dreams
are archi- tectural. I find myself, when listening to some lengthy discussion in a committee, sketching plans for the rebuilding of the south side of the Thames. Covered......
I Know That He Was Being Truthful, Since He Is
a man who does not care for evasions. Yet is it really a fact that men and women of great intellectual power never allow their minds to soak in the warm waters of fantasy? Can......
People And Things
By HAROLD NICOLSON T ONCE, in all innocence, asked a very intellectual friend 1 of mine what form his day-dreams took. He glanced at me in disgust as if I had probed some secret......
Since September 3rd, My Day-dreams Have Suffered A...
change is significant. Until September 3rd last my fantasies were all projected into the future and were about things which might happen a few years from now. Since then, they......
I Should Like To Contend That My Day-dreams Are Of
the philanthropic and impersonal variety. I should like to be able to say that, in these rare moments when I am able to indulge my thoughts, they cluster like rooks about and......
It Is Only Then, I Suppose, That My Day-dreams Become
reputable: My difficulty is to decide what a high minded conqueror would do with his cosmic ray, I decide to keep mine for a period of ten years, after which it shall be......
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