tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post1688768289362260386..comments2023-04-30T07:27:54.645-07:00Comments on <b>HUNGRY GHOST BLOG</b>: "Vincent and the Doctor"David Chutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-12083250256561662142010-06-27T18:09:33.521-07:002010-06-27T18:09:33.521-07:00The basic wish-fulfillment device (and not a dry e...The basic wish-fulfillment device (and not a dry eye in the house -- that Curtis sure can jerk those tears) is used in a story by Max Beerbohm from about 1915, which I call to your attention:<br /><br />An unsuccessful avant garde poet sells his soul to the devil in the 1890s to be able to spend an afternoon at the British Museum Reading Room a hundred years hence, to see if he's vindicated by posterity....<br /><br />On the actual day in question, of course, the members of the Enoch Soames society showed up there in numbers. They claim to have seen him.Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.com