'At Marathon every night you can hear horses neighing
and men fighting. No one who has expressly set himself
to behold this vision has ever got any good from it,
but the spirits are not wroth with such as in ignorance
chance to be spectators.' --Pausanias (Loeb, 1918)

'Yea, be assured, those storied horrors set
In the black depths of Acheron are here,
Here in our very life.' --Lucretius III.978-9 (tr Charles
Bennett)

"Years ago I was present when a woman consulted
Madame Blavatsky for a friend who saw her newly-dead
husband nightly as a decaying corpse and smelt the
odor of the grave. 'When he was dying,' said Madame
Blavatsky, 'he thought the grave the end, and now
that he is dead cannot throw off that imagination.'"
--Yeats

Listening to: The Boredoms

Today Salam Pax comments on TurningTables's blog. Whoa.