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> page. Once or twice I actually felt I was in contact with the spirit of a dead author through their >work. I think this is different from what you describe Toyin, but perhaps it's part of a continuum >of similar human experiences. Louis Massignon has a beautiful description in the introduction to his seminal work on Al-Hallaj of how the latter speaks to him "through the centuries" , and as being a definitive presence in much more than an academic or intellectual sense. Arild