Goddard Binkley
July 11 1951
(The following is taken from Binkley's journal entry from his first meeting and lesson with Alexander. Binkley had just arrived from the USA to study with Alexander.)
"The lesson .... gave me the sense of timelessness: the sense, paradoxically, of time passing and having passed, yet, at the same time,the sense of something permanent, constant and inviolate throughout this passage; for I had the knowledge that this aged, creative and fully alive man was teaching me, in this Victorian room, a principle of growth and change biologically rooted in man as an organism.
I thought at that moment of my own country with it's ceaseless quest for novelty, for any kind of change so long as what is brought forth is new, a quest so compulsive and pervasive that family life was becoming fraught with restlessness, dissatisfaction and anxieties."
