Re: VIRGIL: RE: Vergilian seances

1999-11-13 Thread Richard Aston
PROTECTED] Subject: VIRGIL: RE: Vergilian seances Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:42:48 -0500 forwarded by list owner 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

VIRGIL: RE: Vergilian seances

1999-10-25 Thread David Wilson-Okamura
message forwarded by listowner Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:28:14 -0700 From: Gregory Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I've finally rooted out my copy of Wilson Knight's biography and thought list members might enjoy a couple of excerpts. The speaker of the first passage is T.J. Haarhoff, another

Re: VIRGIL: RE: Vergilian seances

1999-10-25 Thread Peter Bryant
I think from memory that Jackson Knight found at this seance that Virgil could no longer speak Latin in the afterlife and had to converse in English. Although poor old Jackson Knight was probably deceived by the medium, he was not the only Virgilian interested in these things: F.W.H. Myers

Re: VIRGIL: RE: Vergilian seances

1999-10-25 Thread Leofranc Holford-Strevens
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes As for post-mortem meetings with Virgil, I have collected a few examples of which the following is probably the most entertaining. The novel Penguin Island(L'ile des pingouins (1908)) by Anatole France (1844-1924) Is indeed