Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During her latest visit to Illyria, Janet settles down to a pallid little ghost story, only to be distracted by a long overdue awareness of her own insubstantiality. She is also distracted by other guests: an old platonic friend who she discovers is a homosexual, an alcoholic has-been novelist, a professional East Village poet who probably writes off LSD experiences as business trips, and a sexy, uncouth junk-sculptor...
...avows his belief in psychic phenomena but insists that he has on at least five occasions communicated with the dead. In one instance, he told re porters, "an elderly, sad-looking woman" actually manifested herself at the foot of his bed. A spiritualist subsequently corroborated the presence of the ghost and was able to pinpoint her precise path through the neo-Georgian mansion...
...Harvard's radical voice: As to the derivation of "Old Mole," why strain it out of Marx? Why not much more likely in cultivated Harvard from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5, when the Ghost beneath the platform says: "Swear." And Hamlet: "Well said, old mole! Canst work i' th' earth so fast? A worthy pioneer...
...greasy expansion of the superego into a slimy wet bladder, as with booze. It is the smothering of the self, the extinguishing of all that you have been, of everything that you are, of anything you could hope to be. Heroin, my heroine, the White Lady of Blackness, the ghost of electricity, no more problems with you, Sweet Marie, no more problems, no, no, no more...
...said Nora, breaking the silence and my train of thought. "Tim," she said, "I'm beginning to feel like a ghost...