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Oscar Wilde from Purgatory

Oscar Wilde from Purgatory

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Number of Chapters: 10

Length: 04 hours and 33 minutes

Language: English

Hester Dowden, who wrote under the name Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium. She claimed to have communicated with the spirits of various celebrities. In Oscar Wilde from Purgatory, she reproduces the text of her "conversations" with the Irish poet and playwright, conducted via a Ouija board and automatic writing. Wilde proves just as talkative after death as he was in life. His spirit revels in the complements paid to his work by Travers Smith and her colleagues, describes how it feels to exist without a body, and pronounces James Joyce's recently published novel Ulysses a "great bulk of filth". Listeners who are primarily interested in the conversations, rather than Travers Smith's lengthy discussion of them, are directed to Chapter 1 and the Appendices. - Summary by Rob Marland

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Foreword, Preface, and Introduction (Rob Marland)
Chapter I: The Psychic Messages and Automatic Writings of Oscar Wilde - part 1 (Rob Marland)
Chapter I: The Psychic Messages and Automatic Writings of Oscar Wilde - part 2 (Rob Marland)
Chapter II: The Automatic Writing (Rob Marland)
Chapter III: The Ouija Board (Rob Marland)
Chapter IV: The Sub-Conscious (Rob Marland)
Chapter V: Cryptesthesia (Rob Marland)
Chapter VI: The Spiritist Explanation (Rob Marland)
Chapter VII: To the Public (Rob Marland)
Appendices (Rob Marland)
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