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Pale jellies and floating mandolins
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1. Attached image forwarded by Jansy Mello: Salvador Dali's Portrait of Juan de Pareja Adjusting a String on His Mandolin. 1960. Oil on canvas. 76.5 x 87.6 cm. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
2. Message from Matt Roth:
Carolyn,
I see that you are right. I've since found a specific case of yet another medium floating a mandolin. See the last paragraph on this page:
http://books.google.com/books?id=_ODDrJyHT6sC&pg=PA103
And I also agree that the pale jellies are ectoplasm. I remember when I was looking up James Coates, I laughed aloud at some of his "photographs of the invisible," including one where a baby is seen emerging from a woman's nose via a spume of ectoplasm (looked like a hanky to me).
Suellen mentioned theosophy, and I agree that IPH seems to be a match for Madame Blavatsky's movement--especially the notion of planets being the landfall of souls, astral planes. Recall that Oswin Bretwit spent his time in Paris reading theosophy and books on chess.
Matt
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2. Message from Matt Roth:
Carolyn,
I see that you are right. I've since found a specific case of yet another medium floating a mandolin. See the last paragraph on this page:
http://books.google.com/books?id=_ODDrJyHT6sC&pg=PA103
And I also agree that the pale jellies are ectoplasm. I remember when I was looking up James Coates, I laughed aloud at some of his "photographs of the invisible," including one where a baby is seen emerging from a woman's nose via a spume of ectoplasm (looked like a hanky to me).
Suellen mentioned theosophy, and I agree that IPH seems to be a match for Madame Blavatsky's movement--especially the notion of planets being the landfall of souls, astral planes. Recall that Oswin Bretwit spent his time in Paris reading theosophy and books on chess.
Matt
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