![]() Zaalberg van Zelst, and notes that one worked with a Ouija board. ![]() ![]() It is called "You Again: A Visit to the Reincarnation Nation.") She finds scientists who have identified the weight lost by a dying person and notes that a recent movie title used the metric version of that figure, "21 Grams." ("Who's going to go see a movie called 'Point Seven Five Ounces'?" she asks.) She cites two Dutch physicists, J.L.W.P. (This trip was worth it for the chapter title alone. She visits India to look for firsthand evidence that spirits return. So Roach studies ectoplasm, notes that it looks like woven material and learns of a researcher who in 1921 asked of disembodied spirits: "Have you a loom in your world?" Those quacks are sitting ducks for Roach's fine-tuned sense of the absurd. But readers of "Stiff" know what to expect: The author is looking for quacks. On this new journey, she is supposedly searching for answers to life's great questions about the migration of the soul. ![]() Having written a humorous book about corpses ("Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers"), Roach has now ventured one step further into the unknown. Mary Roach's journey into the occult takes her to as many strange places as she can scare up. ![]()
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