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Nov. 27th, 2015

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According to the once famous spiritualist book I've been reading (A Subaltern in Spiritland by J.S.M Ward) things that have been destroyed on earth find a new home- intact- on the astral planes.

So it's the Great War and a number of recently deceased allied soldiers are living in the astral replica of a Franco-Flemish town that has been flattened by shelling. If they want furniture for their houses they go a curio shop where the stock is continually replenishing itself. "O look," says the shop keeper," There's a grandfather clock that wasn't there before." On Christmas Day they attend a service in Ypres cathedral.

Sometimes they'll catch a house reassembling itself.  If the earthly counterpart is being slowly taken apart by shellfire the astral version will materialise in stages. First the roof and upper storeys appear- suspended in mid air- and then the lower portions attach themselves in chunks.

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