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Karl Marx, who in spirit presided over this period, is introduced in a characteristically oblique Powell way. He makes his appearance over a ouija board (planchette in Britain) at a seance conducted by Myra Erdleigh, a figure like T. S. Eliot's "Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante," said to be "the wisest woman in Europe." She warns of the planchette: "The things it writes cause such a lot of bad feeling sometimes." The board says that "Karl is not pleased" and, ominously, "Force is the midwife."* Thus the bewhiskered ghost of Marx sets Jenkins' friends whirling about...
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