Spook: Chapter 5

5 Comment:

1. This chapter takes place in Cambridge.
2. There is a lot of Buddhist work in the Cambridge library.
3. Cambridge library have the most important collections of Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts in the world.
4. Spiritualism, in a nutshell, is a religious movement used to communicate with the dead.
5. Spiritualism happens in the U.S. more than England due to WWI.

4 Question:

1. Where/How did Cambridge University get so many work of Buddhist?
2. Does it mean more U.S. people died in WWI than people in England?
3. Is Sorbonne and Harvard University trying to find artifacts also?
4. What is Crawford's discoveries that are so "enormously important"?

3 Vocabulary:

1. Ectoplasm - outer portion of a cytoplasm
2. Thermoreregulation - the regulation of body temperature
3. Séances - a meeting of people to receive spirtitualistic messages

2 Literary Term:

1. "... ankle length robe with a massive key on a chain around his neck..." [imagery]
2. "...felt like bones..." [simile]

1 Overview:

This chapter is about the different discoveries of researchers.