tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post2058281405012708526..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Working Miracles in 1896Tony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-79210795200762239832010-08-15T03:22:23.022-07:002010-08-15T03:22:23.022-07:00"The reader's attention is specially and ..."The reader's attention is specially and definitely called to the date". You can say that again! Late 1896 seems to be positively charged with paranormal activity in Wellsian fiction. In 'The Stolen Body' Mr Bessel is "particularly interested in the question of thought transference and of apparitions of the living, and in November, 1896, he commenced a series of experiments in conjunction with Mr Vincey, of Staple Inn, in order to test the possibility of projecting an apparition of oneself by force of will through space". Morris's term for this phenomenon in his late romances, where there is a good deal of it, is "sending".Tony Pinkneynoreply@blogger.com