Edward Frederic Benson

Name: The Bus-Conductor
Author: Edward Frederic Benson

The Bus-Conductor (1912)

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“The Bus-Conductor”, published in 1912, is a work by Edward Frederic Benson. It explores elements such as hearse, ghost and hole.

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Edward Frederic Benson, The Bus-Conductor (1912)

“ Yet there ought to have been nothing frightening about it; what I saw was certainly a most useful and friendly ghost. But it came from the shaded side of things; it looked suddenly out of the night and the mystery with which life is surrounded."
"I want first to tell you quite shortly my theory about ghost-seeing," he continued, "and I can explain it best by a simile, an image. Imagine then that you and I and everybody in the world are like people whose eye is directly opposite a little tiny hole in a sheet of cardboard which is continually shifting and revolving and moving about. ”

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Edward Frederic Benson, The Bus-Conductor (1912)

“ There was no sound either of foot-passengers or wheeled traffic; the music of life appeared to be absolutely mute. But now, instead of being sleepy and heavy, I felt, though I must have slept an hour or two at most, since it was not yet dawn, perfectly fresh and wide-awake, and the effort which had seemed not worth making before, that of getting out of bed and opening the other window, was quite easy now and I pulled up the blind, threw it wide open, and leaned out, for somehow I parched and pined for air. ”

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Edward Frederic Benson, The Bus-Conductor (1912)

“ You for all your apprehensions and expectancy have never seen a ghost. But I have, though I am the last person in the world you would have thought likely to do so, and, though my nerves are steady enough again now, it knocked me all to bits. ”

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Edward Frederic Benson, The Bus-Conductor (1912)

“ The most part of mankind, I am aware, do not like long stories, but to the few, among whom I number myself, who really like to listen to lengthy accounts of experiences, Hugh is an ideal narrator. I do not care for his theories, or for his similes, but when it comes to facts, to things that happened, I like him to be lengthy. ”

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Edward Frederic Benson, The Bus-Conductor (1912)

“ Fear is the most absorbing and luxurious of emotions. One forgets all else if one is afraid."
"Well, the fact that neither of us saw anything," he said, "confirms what I have always believed."
"And what have you always believed?"
"That these phenomena are purely objective, not subjective, and that one's state of mind has nothing to do with the perception that perceives them, nor have circumstances or surroundings anything to do with them either. Look at Osburton. It has had the reputation of being a haunted house for years, and it certainly has all the accessories of one. ”

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Edward Frederic Benson, The Bus-Conductor (1912)

“ I had heard some such theory before, and though Hugh put it rather picturesquely, there was nothing in the least convincing or practical about it. It might be so, or again it might not.
"I hope your ghost was more original than your theory," said I, in order to bring him to the point.
"Yes, I think it was. You shall judge."
I put on more coal and poked up the fire. Hugh has got, so I have always considered, a great talent for telling stories, and that sense of drama which is so necessary for the narrator. ”

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Edward Frederic Benson, The Bus-Conductor (1912)

“ In it too there is another hole, and when, fortuitously it would seem, these two holes, the one through which we are always looking, and the other in the spiritual plane, come opposite one another, we see through, and then only do the sights and sounds of the spiritual world become visible or audible to us. With most people these holes never come opposite each other during their life. ”

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Edward Frederic Benson, The Bus-Conductor (1912)

“ Of course, there was a moon behind the clouds, but it was curious how every detail of the hearse and the horses was visible. There was only one man, the driver, with it, and the street was otherwise absolutely empty. ”

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