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William Demarest's fellow passengers become embodiments of elements in his character, and in human nature generally. The book is lifted above mere introspection by the commingling of these others in relations of their own-a frustrate music merchant; a tropical trollop; a ripe Jew; a psychic; a chess-player; a man with a glass eye. Each person is treated as a universe unto himself, in the vaster but no more inscrutable universe of sea and sky now and then visible over the rail or through a porthole...
...region around Point Sur is already crowded with psychic disturbances. While dry winds blew, followed by a night "striped with lightning" and a day of yellow floods, two boys crucified a hawk; their brother, a visionary, saw the Virgin walking on the sea, mountain tall, mourning her lover; a ranch girl fled to her man to slake her fear of death; the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Faith Heriot, went in a famine of unnatural love to Natalia Morhead, whose husband's act unsexed Faith Heriot two years before. Morhead is not back from the War. Faith nurses his crippled father...
...Varnished board decorated with the alphabet, the ten digits and the words "Yes" and "No," upon which, with a planchette (little table), amateurs of spiritualism received supposed psychic communications...
Margery, Boston's most talented medium, has let it be known that she has discovered finger prints of "Walter", her spirit control. Although "Walter" died without leaving any finger prints to use as comparison the marks are undoubtedly authentic, according to Dr. Crandon, the husband of the psychic lady. At the same time, he says, was heard the ticking of a celestial clock, and perfume, from heavenly sources, was smelt...
Clark University's symposium on ghosts (TIME, Dec. 13), drew to a close. Frederick Bligh Bond, British psychic researcher and architect, described the helpful conduct of a departed spirit during excavating work at mystical Glastonbury Abbey, 20 years ago. A friend of Architect Bond's, one John Alleyne, had been the medium for messages in automatic writing. "All knowledge," the ghost had assured them, "is eternal, and is available to mental telepathy." Later had followed a rough drawing, which some monkish Latin described as the lost chapel of King Edgar, 30 yards long at the Abbey...