On Apr 17, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Matthew Roth wrote: And we have to accept that John & Sybil witnessed these events and accepted that they were "an outward extension or expulsion of insanity" (Hazel's). (Btw, I agree with Kinbote that it doesn't make much sense, and even seems cruel, for them to blame Hazel.)
Funny story: I had an experience similar to the flying doggy bed. One afternoon, a bathroom door in my parents home slammed with apparent supernatural force. I stuck my head out of another room just in time to see a heavy soap dish in flight from the bathroom. It did cross my mind that this might be something spooky. It actually turned out to be a deer who, chased by a dog, had crashed through the bathroom window setting in motion the previous events.
But there is a spooky p.s. Hours later when the house had been un-deered by the fire department I called a friend to tell her the story. "You'll never guess ..." I told her. There was a pause and then "A deer was in your house." "How did you guess?" "From your father's whistling." What was he whistling? The toreador song from Carmen.
Carolyn