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Danger, Pills
- University of Iowa Press
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Danger; Pills ... I began to be aware of a presence standing over my right shoulder in a majestic red cloak, from a height of about seven feet. It was trying urgently to tell me something. My mother was seated at a small table with the British girl. and the girl's husband , a skeptic and pessimist, sat to my left on the sofa. The board was rocking excitedly, as if shaken by the urgency of a message that had to be received at once. "Nola ... Nola ... Danger!" it spelled out so quickly that my mother and the girl could hardly follow the moving disc with their fingers. The board became very agitated and the disc started to move about wildly. At this moment I felt the figure at my right rise up a few inches into the air (this seemed to be a characteristic preparation of these spirits for entering a human mind to convey messages ), glide towards my right ear and finally enter my brain from the base of my skull. I heard a voice repeatedly insist "Danger ... pills ... PILLS." My mouth spontaneously flew open and I said "pills" to the surrounding company without knowing what I was doing or why; at that precise moment the same word was spelled out on the board, and the room shook as if some psychic earthquake had destroyed its equilibrium ... 307 ...