We learn that David was poisoned, somehow, by the water in the stream, and that Carla took him to a psychic, who promised to split his spirit and migrate part of it to a healthy body, allowing part of an unknown spirit to enter David's body.
One psychic contends that the unknown spirit is that of an older man, with slicked-back, dark wavy hair, wearing a tuxedo with tails and top hat and a belt with a pyramid on the buckle.
If his name is relatively unknown, his spirit is still making itself felt nearly a hundred and fifty years after his seminal discovery.
It is hard convincing people that the most enjoyable drinking experience you've had all year was under a kebab shop drinking a hitherto unknown Mexican spirit while eating a slice of orange with crushed-up worm and some spicy salt on it.
Is it not the task of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display, with as little mixture of the alien and external as possible?
You have control over the volume and the speed at which you speak but not the content, for example as prayer language: For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 1 Corinthians14:14 When in private, use "speaking in tongues" as much as you can.
Some believe in an unknown meditational tone or language ("glossolalia" - lingua) with which the "Holy Spirit" may communicate in "groanings" to the heavenly Father as in "charismatic" meditations.
No surprises there, but many people must be made uncomfortable by the sight of blacks displaying a race-driven lynching spirit, not unknown in the United States, which blacks have special reason to despise.
But although experience has shown that many a pioneer trod his path [with] absolute certainty at a time when he was still held to be wandering half-demented, most people invariably turn against those who strike out into unknown regions of the spirit… New music is never beautiful on first acquaintance".
Once again, Pilgrim Fathers are needed to set foot on this unknown land, with a spirit of adventure and enthusiasm, new Founding Fathers establishing institutions based on respect and dignity.
If Superman represents the visionary individual, Ms. Bradford's ships suggest utopian collectivity, promising voyages of kindred spirits to unknown shores.
