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The Unruly Literature Class
James Sully (1842–1923)
Illusions: A Psychological Study (1887) · Printed page(s) 167; Third edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1887; original English; account 368
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I dreamt I was unexpectedly called on to lecture to a class of young women, on Herder. I began hesitatingly, with some vague generalities about the Augustan age of German literature, referring to the three well-known names of Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe. Immediately my sister, who suddenly appeared in the class, took me up, and said she thought there was a fourth distinguished name belonging to this period. I was annoyed at the interruption, but said, with a feeling of triumph, "I suppose you mean Wieland?" and then appealed to the class whether there were not twenty persons who knew the names I had mentioned to one who knew Wieland's name. Then the class became generally disorderly. My feeling of embarrassment gained in depth. Finally, as a climax, several quite young girls, about ten years and less, came and joined the class. The dream broke off abruptly as I was in the act of taking these children to the wife of an old college tutor, to protest against their admission.
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James Sully, Illusions: A Psychological Study (1887), Third edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1887; original English, printed page(s) 167.
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