All about hypnosis and related subjects in the media
A collection of three romantic short stories involving hypnosis published by Ellora’s Cave publishing company. Each of the three have a lovely, lonely lady paired with a seductive, sexy man though some use of hypnosis, whether it be a stage hypnosis show, a demonstration of mesmerism or in pursuit of a notorious criminal.
Even though I mentioned it in the original posting, I wanted to add that the website Io9 has a new review of the book, “They Live” by Jonathan Lethem, here, a critical examination of the 1988 John Carpenter movie of the same name that I wrote about here. I didn’t examine the book in that posting, but I’ve learned some things about it that I want to bring to my readers’ attention.
In ‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’, the Fourth Doctor and Leela encounter a mystery with extraordinary proportions in Victorian London, involving missing women, a stage magician and his malevolent dummy assistant, Chinese tongs, a mysterious Oriental cabinet, a crippled war criminal from the future and a giant rat.
The uniquely American spectacle that is the Superbowl has for decades attracted the most cutting-edge, the most interesting and sometimes the most innane television advertisements ever shown. (The Apple Computer “1984” ad, for instance.) This year was no difference, but for the first time in many years (if ever) the ads this year included two with prominent and blatant hypnotic imagery.
A student has a violent argument with his professor, storms out of class, then returns several minutes later, brandishing a gun and shoots the professor before the entire class. Its a classic open and shut case, except the student doesn’t remember anything of the incident. That’s what gets Petrocelli’s attention.
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