Not sure about Jackson Knight's seance, but a source close to me (my father
in fact) was once in an early radio taxi with Wilson Knight, who heard a
voice saying 'Car 27 calling car 27' on the radio and (apparently) said 'Do
you hear the voices? They are trying to contact us' (they being spirits).
Caroline Lee schrieb:
> In Book VI, Aeneaus descends to the underworld. At the end of Book VI, we
> are told that there are two gates through which dreams and ghosts ascend to
> the world above: true ones pass through the gates of horn, false ones
> through the gates of ivory. After his visit
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:45:56 -0700
From: Gregory Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Vergilian seances
>Jackson Knight
>supposedly contacted the spirit of Virgil through a medium. A question
>for the list: Does anyone know more about Knight's seance? It is a
>trivia
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From: "Timothy Mallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 08:45:25 PDT
I can't think of what need a liberalistic, capitalist society like the U.S.
could get even from Athenian democracy. One could argue, with Nietzsche,
that to study Classics is to th
>In Book VI, Aeneaus descends to the underworld. At the end of Book VI, we
>are told that there are two gates through which dreams and ghosts ascend to
>the world above: true ones pass through the gates of horn, false ones
>through the gates of ivory. After his visit to the realm of the dead, we
Adrian:
I appreciate your doubts about the uses that humane education can be put to.
The best way to state my view is that a study of humanities might arguably
be necessary to the development of a humane point of view, not sufficient
for it. That is the strongest argument I can imagine a proponent
