Thomas, according to Danforth, was going into a state of hysterical withdrawal, almost catatonic. He was unable to focus while his own lawyers questioned him. He lay clenched in a fetal position. He sobbed convulsively and hyperventilated before many of his intimates, saying that his destroyers had finally succeeded. Danforth saw many of these symptoms, and Thomas’s wife, Virginia, told him there were some she would not confide even to him. Danforth did not want to know more: “There are matters that should remain private between a husband and a wife—certainly matters that are hard to include in a book about a good man who is a friend. That a future justice of the Supreme Court was writhing on the floor is awful enough to tell.”
Absentia wrote:Halloween is a Christianized and modernized version of an ancient Gaelic festival called Samhain. The Irish Celts believed that the periods roughly halfway between the equinox and the solstice (November 1 and May 1) were when the spirits of the dead were able to leave wherever they hang out for the rest of the year and walk the earth.
Zevran wrote:Magic can kill. Knives can kill. Even small children launched at great speeds can kill.
Absentia wrote:Halloween is a Christianized and modernized version of an ancient Gaelic festival called Samhain. The Irish Celts believed that the periods roughly halfway between the equinox and the solstice (November 1 and May 1) were when the spirits of the dead were able to leave wherever they hang out for the rest of the year and walk the earth.
The origin of trick-or-treating was the ritual of giving offerings to these spirits to secure their blessings for the winter, or else risk them coming to your home and doing mischief. Eventually it became traditional for people to dress up as spirits and receive the offerings on their behalf. The religious significance of the ritual slowly eroded after the introduction of Christianity until it became just a fun thing for children and probably-drunk revelers to do.
A Combustible Lemon wrote:Death is an archaic concept for simpleminded commonfolk, not Victorian scientist whales.
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