A seance is announced
June 24, 2008
“Did you ever have séances as a teenager?”
“Of course! Who didn’t?”
“It would be so cool to have one now. Ouija boards… ectoplasm… a little mass hysteria…”
[Rummages in bag for day planner]
“Okay. When’s good for you?”
Ruthless practicality in the service of ephemeral pleasures. That is why I love Team W0w.
Inspired by Sarah Waters’ cracking novel Affinity and The Table-Rappers and Other Powers, two absorbing accounts of the credulous excesses of the spiritualist movement, I’m hosting an old-school Victorian seance, complete with ouija board, mysterious knocking, manifestations and, of course, a huge bowl of something green and boozy and roiling with dry ice.
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