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Elves blew his mind

Mike Jay: Hallucinations, 7 March 2013

Hallucinations 
by Oliver Sacks.
Picador, 322 pp., £18.99, November 2012, 978 1 4472 0825 9
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Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800-1920 
edited by Shane McCorristine.
Pickering and Chatto, 5 vols, 1950 pp., £450, September 2012, 978 1 84893 200 5
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... president, the Cambridge philosophy professor Henry Sidgwick, are extracted in the first volume of Shane McCorristine’s expansive recovery of 19th-century studies in ‘the night side of nature’. The selection opens with vivid early-century reports of ‘apparitions’ and ‘spectral illusions’; in the later decades, the term ...

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