Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Séance

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"The word seance, French for 'session,' now almost exclusively denotes a gathering held to commune with spirits." —Barbara Weisberg, Talking to the Dead, 2005
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2 comments:

  1. TamaraJanuary 21, 2009 at 1:12 PM

    The very sound of the word is mysterious.

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  2. Eccentric ScholarJanuary 21, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    I agree. It was magical even before the Spiritualist connotations.

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