“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now
I know in part, but then I shall know even as also I am known.”
                                                                                   1 Corinthians 13:12

The ghost in man, the ghost that once was man
But cannot wholly free itself from Man,
Are calling to each other thro' a dawn
Stranger than earth has ever seen; the veil
Is rending, and the voices of the day
Are heard across the Voices of the dark".
                                                           Tennyson

“We want to make a world that is seen through a dirty pane of glass.”
                                                                                    The Brothers Quay

I guess I was about 9 when I first became interested in the abandoned house across the street from our apartment complex on the outskirts of Munich. On Sunday, my parents told me not to go there.  They warned me: I would be cut by broken windows, the floor would cave, the rafters fall, and you never knew… strange men might be hiding in the attic.  On Monday I was scheduled –as I was every Monday- to climb the stairs into the bus destined for Munich International School.  I climbed, instead, through the kitchen window of my first “haunted” house.   I remember, I crept on tiptoes across shards of broken glass into the bedroom, and there I stood, as still as midnight --breathing, listening. >READ MORE