Endnote 224 — the William James line that stopped Lenz

Sources the passage that jolted Lenz into self-awareness — William James on "that latent process of unconscious preparation often preceding a sudden awakening to the fact that the mischief is irretrievably done" (p. 1036) — read by chance in a large-print Principles of Psychology found behind a bookshelf in the Ennet House living room, a book that has come to matter deeply to him.