![]() Loving time is spent elaborating the career of archaeologist Tom Lethbridge, the Cambridge don-cum-dowser who developed a vast numerology of dowsing: so many inches of pendulum swing for copper, so many for truffles (!), etc. ![]() Wilson's glib pen flows to embrace all, looking for links, speculating on connections. Clues to this voluminous exercise in belief/understanding lie in the stream-of-consciousness outpouring of the first few pages of text, which touches upon everything from Margaret Murray and Stonehenge to Madame Blavatsky and the midwife toad. ![]() ![]() The Romance of the Occult, or the Will to Believe, exerts a special hold on Englishmen, from the earnest founders of the Society for Psychical Research down to the present author. ![]()
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