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Updated: May 3, 2025

The Khan's vertebra has become too limp and willowy to enable him to sit upright, and he has become too indifferent to such coarse, un-spiritual things as stewed chicken and musk-melons to care about eating any, while the moonshi bashi's affection for me on account of the map has become so overwhelming that he deliberately empties all the chicken on to my sheet of bread, leaving none whatever for himself and the phenomenal young person with the conscientious scruples.

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 : From San Francisco to Teheran

Exteriorly the two envelopes were precisely alike. The stitched envelope was marked on the outside 'No. 2. As the contents of both were identical, a clairvoyant Spirit that could answer No. 1 could answer No. 2, but nothing less than superhuman power could extract the paper from No. 2 without so tearing the envelope as to betray an un-Spiritual origin.

University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism - Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism : In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert