1. _Agt._, a bat (Fig. 109); _Per._, as in Fig 109a. The drawing at the
top is accompanied by the remark “Looks like ear shape something.” And
certainly each of the bat’s wings does resemble an ear in shape. The
middle left drawing gets the idea that there are two symmetrical and
diverging curves, but fails to complete them; space is left between them
which in the agent’s drawing is occupied by the body. The middle right
figure again has symmetrical diverging curves, with a further approach
toward shaping the wings. This time they are incorrectly joined at the
bottom, but the perpendicular line between betrays an inkling that
something belongs there. Imperfect as all these attempts are, they
contain hints which it is difficult to attribute to chance. The agent,
looking at his drawing, would of necessity have his attention focus
first on one part of it and then upon another, and the percipient’s
drawings seem as though they caught his several moments of wandering
attention.
2. _Agt._, a hand with pointing finger, and thumb held vertically (Fig.
108); _Per._, (1) a drawing not reproduced here of a negro’s head with a
finger-like projection drawn vertically from his skull, (2) then script
“Turned into a pig’s head, (3) then a rabbit’s,” as in Figure 108a. In
one sense the _percipient’s_ drawings are all failures; that is, none of
them would be recognized as a hand. But in all three a feeling seems to
express itself that there is _something_ sticking up. This is the more
remarkable in Drawing 1, since such an excrescence does not belong on a
head. Drawing 2 gets rid of the face, and the thumb of the original
becomes a peculiarly thumb-like ear.
3. For this experiment see the “line-and-circle men” and their
evidentially suggestive sequel (Figs. 144, 144a).
4. _Agt._, a rudely drawn caterpillar (Fig. 118); _Per._, script:
“Fork—then garden tool—lawn rake. Leaf,” and drawing representing a leaf
which has a certain fantastic resemblance to the caterpillar (Fig.
118a). Mr. Sinclair makes the illuminating remark that he owned “a
lawn-rake made of bristly bamboo, which looks very much like my
drawing.”
5. _Agt._, a smoking volcano (Fig. 25); _Per._, what she called a “Big
black beetle with horns” (Fig. 25a). But the body of the beetle closely
matches the smoke of the volcano, while the antennae or “horns” nearly
correspond to the outline of the mountain.