Spook: Chapter 4

5 Comment:

1. The year 1911 Ducan Macdougall is still continuing with soul weighing.
2. Ge said on the newspaper about finding out how souls look like.
3. Six years later Dr. Ducan was diagnosed with cancer and wrote one last poem.
4. Ducan's soul is 38 billion miles away.
5. "Heaven Is Perhaps Just Outside Earth" was in 1914 Boston Sunday Post.

4 Questions:

1. Souls forget their own name?
2. Why is this chapter titled "Vienna Sausage Affair"?
3. Do 38 billion miles consider far away or near for a soul?
4. X-Rays can help detect souls?

3 Vocabulary:

1. Vienna - a port in and capital of Austria
2. Consumptives - destructive, wasteful
3. Spectrum - a broad ranged of varied but related ideas or object

2 Literary Term:

1. "...from the lips like a yawn" [simile]
2. "...sounding like a robe wearing doomsday cult..." [simile]

1 Overview:

This is about the studies Dr. Ducan had made when he was weighing souls.