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Q, Then this one has actually forgotten the date of its translation
to the spirit land 1
This was granted to be the case.
Q. This is very curious. Well, then, what year was it!
(More fumbling, jerking, idiotic spasms, on the part of the medium.
Finally, explanation to the effect that the spirit has forgotten the
year.)
Q. This is indeed stupendous. Let me put one more question,
one last question, to you, before we part to meet no more ; — for even
If I fail to avoid your asylum, a meeting there will go for nothing as
a meeting, since by that time you will easily have forgotten me and
rny name : did you die a natural death, or were you cut off by a
catastrophe 1
A. (After long hesitation and many throes and spasms.) Saturtil
death,
This ended the interview. My friend told the medium that when
his relative was in this poor world, he was endowed with an extra-
ordinary intellect and an absolutely defectless memory, and it seemed
a great pity that he had not been allowed to keep some shred of the^e
for his amusement in the realms of everlasting contentment, and for
the amazement and admiration of the rest of the population there.
This man had plenty of clients — has plenty yet, He receives
letters from spirits located in every part of the spirit wovlJ, and
delivers them all aver this country through the United States mail.
These letters are filled with advice — advice from * spirits ' who don't
know as much as a tadpole — and this advice is religiously followed
by the receivers. One of these clients was a man whom the spirits
(if one may thus plurally describe the ingenious Manchester) wei-e
teaching how to contrive an improved railway car-wheel. It is
coarse employment for a spirit, but it is higher and wholesome;
activity than talking for ever about * how happy we are/