Snap!I can't be first, can I? Arrived today, and has a feature on one of my favourite UFO/alien cases from my childhood in it, worth the price of admission alone. Also some Amityville business.
Who has written the Amityville article?
Cheers, I see he has a book out- https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/poltergeist-new-investigation-destructive-haunting-john-fraserJohn Fraser.
I think that is just a misspelling.Reading the book reviews and getting a Mandela moment on The Curious History of Sex. (page 62)
No, not the content.
Right at the end of the review, saw something odd and had to blink and look twice. It was the way the review spelt a word: anæesthetic.
It wasn't even American English, which leaves out the "æ" ligature and simplifies the word to anesthetic. So there is at least one variant spelling out there.
That extra letter "e" in there just after the "æ". Once I realised what was odd about the spelling of a word I've always written as "anæsthetic" without the extra "e", I wondered. Has it always been spelt like that and I just haven't noticed? Or has somebody changed the spelling lately, and I wasn't copied into the memo, and missed it? is this a Mandela thing?
Thinking about it, the reviewer is quoting the author who is directly quoting William Kellogg, who was active at the turn of the 19th - 20th century. Could this be an archaic Victorian-era spelling? Or Kellogg's own idiosyncracy? Explaining why it's been allowed to stand by Ft's sub-editor even though the word is incorrectly spelt by modern standards.I think that is just a misspelling.
Could be either.Could this be an archaic Victorian-era spelling? Or Kellogg's own idiosyncracy?
Right at the end of the review, saw something odd and had to blink and look twice. It was the way the review spelt a word: anæesthetic.
It wasn't even American English, which leaves out the "æ" ligature and simplifies the word to anesthetic. So there is at least one variant spelling out there.
That extra letter "e" in there just after the "æ". Once I realised what was odd about the spelling of a word I've always written as "anæsthetic" without the extra "e", I wondered. Has it always been spelt like that and I just haven't noticed? Or has somebody changed the spelling lately, and I wasn't copied into the memo, and missed it? is this a Mandela thing?
Not the content.
My copy of 397 came through on time as far as I known. I'd been away for a few days, and two copies were nestling among the junk mail on the mat. I opened my copy and put the spare on my desk. Eventually got round to moving it and found it was addressed to a WB about 12 doors down from me in Huntingdon.
So if you're on the board and someone pushed a copy though your door at about 13:15 today (10 September), that's where it's been hiding, not detained by be Men in Black.
The Risley Silver Man "explanation" is a pretty good example of "explaining away" too. Not saying it's not plausible (or even probable), but Mr Anonymous, interviewed 40 years later, says it was all down to Mr Also Anonymous playing a prank on (untraceable?) students. No sources given, not even for the police report that described the witness as "pissed as a newt" (can one access police reports so casually?). To judge by the maps in the article, the author has a strange grasp of distance too.
Brilliant review of the new Blu-Ray release of Nicolas Roeg's masterpiece Walkabout.
Hard to believe it's 51 years since the movie first enthralled and mystified viewers.