Immortal Authors

It is a good thing that the invisible world is so thoroughly shut out from this. Clairvoyance and spirit-tapping would be great evils to the world, if it were not that the spirits even of the ablest men, in losing their bodies seem also to lose their wits. It is well that it is so, for if Washington Irving dictated to a medium accounts of the other world in such a style as that of his "Little Britain", for instance, we should lose all interest in the affairs of this sphere, and nobody would buy our novels.

—Edward Eggleston, The End of the World: A Love Story.