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Green Tea
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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A Vicar consults Martin Hesselius concerning his specter visions, Martin sees an apparition in the form of a menacing spirit Monkey. Is it his diet or his mind that has forsaken him.
A Vicar consults Martin Hesselius concerning his specter visions, Martin sees an apparition in the form of a menacing spirit Monkey. Is it his diet or his mind that has forsaken him.
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"When man's interior sight is opened, which is that of his spirit, then there appear the things of another life, which cannot possibly be made visible to the bodily sight."...
"By the internal sight it has been granted me to see the things that are in the other life, more clearly than I see those that are in the world. From these considerations, it is evident that external vision exists from interior vision, and this from a vision still more interior, and so on."...
"There are with every man at least two evil spirits."...
"With wicked genii there is also a fluent speech, but harsh and grating. There is also among them a speech which is not fluent, wherein the dissent of the thoughts is perceived as something secretly creeping along within it."
"The evil spirits associated with man are, indeed from the hells, but when with man they are not then in hell, but are taken out thence. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12
As hinted at by the title given to this collection of strange stories, Sheridan Le Fanu was interested in writing about the mystical and metaphyiscal;
In a Glass Darkly is a reference to something the apostle Paul said in the Bible about not being able to see reality in the way it actually is because we are looking through an imperfect (dark) glass.
I just thought that was a cool piece of trivia that I'd always wondered about.
Anyway. This is a col
The star rating is based solely on the stories, and I'd recommend reading them.
But in a different edition. Most every book has a handful of typos, even with the number of eyes that go over them, but the typos in this edition had to be in the hundreds. New paragraphs would start mid-sentence, much of
'You have heard, no doubt, of the appalling superstition that prevails in Upper and Lower Styria, in Moravia, Silesia, in Turkish Serbia, in Poland, even in Russia; the superstition, so we must call it, of the Vampire.'
Review to follow.
"What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same."
DEMON MONKEY
I read the Folio Society edition of this book and that red-eyed demon monkey was on the front c