the memory palace

Episode 119 (John C. Calhoun from the Opposite Side of the Line that Divides the Living from the Dead)

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Music

  • Sad Seine by Lambert.
  • Titan's Island by Ancient Ocean
  • Flowering Jasmine as performed by Georgs Pelicis and Gidon Kremer
  • Malpensa by Julia Kent

    Notes

    • I first came upon the Calhoun bit while re-reading Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism by Barbara Weisberg.
    • Which us, among other places to J.H. Fowler's New Testament "miracles" and Modern "miracles" 
    • And to the delightfully named, The Ordeal of Life: Graphically Illustrated in the Experiences of Fifteen Hundred Individuals Promiscuously Drawn from All Nations, Religions, Classes, & Conditions of Men Alphabetically Arranged and Given Psychometrically, Through the Mediumship of John C. Grinnell, In the Presence of the Compiler, Thomas R. Hazard. 
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