Dame of Doom: The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns
“Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, …
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Spare the Rodenstein, Spoil the Schnellert: What to do about a Phantom like Maria?
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future” – Niels Bohr Some people don’t think of German as …
The Phantom Isle of the Seven Bishops: Portuguese Refugees and Irish Saints
“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand …
Hog Wild: Phantom Pork and Spectral Swine
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals” …
Dead Daddy Dearest: The Ghost of Major Blomberg
“He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone” – Antonio Porchia Before his marriage to Charlotte of …
Haunt Couture: Death Be Not Unfashionable
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which …
Hibbert’s Ghosts: An Autopsy of the Unconscious
“The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them” ― Philip K. Dick Long …
The Unfinished Business of James Haddock: Ghostly Legal Grievances
“I intend to live forever, or die trying” – Groucho Marx Any good accountant will tell you to get your …
The Cossacks of the Mind: Collective Hypnotism and the Phantom Archangel Army of World War I
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning” – Winston Churchill My brain worries me. It rarely seems adequate …
Losing the Island of Saxemberg: The Mind is a Monstrous Metaphor
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the …
The Phantom Battle of Edge Hill: All the Gods are Dead Except the God of War
“War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory” – Albert Pike Arthur Koestler once said, “The most persistent …
Phantasmology for Fun and Profit: Model Agnosticism and the Near Death Acting Experience
I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. ‘Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse …
