A crew of table-tapping thaumaturgists and paint-pot hocus-pocussers is now at work with runes and incantations, said Mesmerist Green (who in ordinary life, Director of Choral Music and dramatic coach at Delaware Valley High), transforming the theatre stage into the living room of the pleasant English country home owned by Charles Condomine, the hero—or victim—of the haunted hilarity.

Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection.

Folklorists claim that the superstitious belief that opening an umbrella indoors augurs misfortune has a more recent and utilitarian origin. In eighteenth-century London, when metal-spoked waterproof umbrellas began to become a common rainy-day sight, their stiff, clumsy spring mechanism made them veritable hazards to open indoors. A rigidly spoked umbrella, opening suddely in a small room, could seriously injure an adult or a child, or shatter a frangible object.

I can discern your nature and see that even without any arguments (logoi) from me it will propel you to what you say you are drawn towards,