Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, devoted decades of his life to spiritualism, the art of communing with the dead.
He wrote 20 books on the subject; lectured about spiritualism throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and North America; and was an active member of the Society for Psychical Research for 37 years.
My medium for communing with the dead is Twitter.
Presently, I receive regular Tweets from Sir Arthur, Thomas Jefferson, the Ancient Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius, and the Victorian lawyer and diarist George Templeton Strong.
Tweets from the dead entertain and uplift me while I traverse the underworld (on Metro, not a raft) during my commute.
Indeed, communing with the dead is one of the very best uses of Twitter, which is otherwise largely wasteland.
I recommend it wholeheartedly, and enjoy the fact the dead can Tweet and pay nothing for their mobile phones.
Woody Allen once wrote, “If man were immortal, do you realize what his meat bills would be?”
