There's been quite a history of illustrious deceased American authors
finding creative ways back to the Earth to supplement their career
writings, usually through the kind services of mediums (one thinks of those
scenes of Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost).  There was one guy with whom I had a
few extended, sometimes approaching bitter exchanges on the Hemingway LIST
a number of years ago.  This guy had published several volumes claiming to
be Hem's chosen vessel in these parts;  I was challenging his (what I
considered absurd) claims.  Cannot recall his name, sadly; too lazy to look
it up.  We "agreed to disagree," as they say in our postmodern environs
these days.  But I can assure you, he was in earnest, and oddly believed he
felt strongly it was my duty to prove him wrong somehow, that the burden of
proof was in fact on me!  Strange approach to logic.  As I recall, I was
the only person on the Hemingway LIST silly enough to engage his mysteries
with logic, that was my own fault I guess...

I believe Uncle Walt (i.e. Whitman) has also come in for a fair share of
claims from channellers, over the years.  Are there other great American
authors that other LISTers think of in this regard??  I'm just curious this
morning... -hb

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Kevin Mac Donnell <
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> Did Carkeet use a ouija board? That was Twain's preferred method of making
> his presence known.
>
> I've been reminded off-list that he came back in 1982 and wrote yet another
> entire book, and again in the 1990s to write a dedication (a sign he may be
> slowing down?). These may be questionable since no ouija boards were
> involved.
>
> I hate to say it, but the quality of his writing has really deteriorated
> since he died. That may explain why scholars ignore them. The editors at
> MTP
> share this deplorable prejudice as well, including among his posthumous
> works only those things he wrote BEFORE he died. Now, I ask you, what's
> posthumous about that?
>
> Kevin
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> >Dead ever since?  How can you so disparage David Carkeet's "I Been There
> >Before"?
>
> Exactly what I was thinking! (But I couldn't remember the title.)
>
> -- Bob G.
>



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