Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? by Martin Gardner

Author:Martin Gardner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780393245035
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

Oates told Emery he had been researching backward speech for seven years and considered his discovery that subconscious thoughts emerge in reverse speech to be one of “tremendous value.” The backward phrases are of course highly symbolic and have to be carefully interpreted. For example, the phrase “I am Sir Lancelot” turned up on one of Oates’s backward tapes. It signified, he said, that the speaker subconsciously thought of himself as a knight or savior. Oates said he moved to the United States in the hope of getting academic recognition for his great work.

When he first heard “simone” in Bush’s speech, Oates said, he thought it might refer to a friend or relative, but after hearing it again in Gulf crisis speeches by Baker and Cheney, he began to suspect it was a secret code word. The phrase that emerged in Baker’s backward speech was “simone won’t shine.”

At the time of this letter from Jones to Cheney, Pell was running for reelection against Congresswoman Claudine Schneider. She was unable to capitalize on the “simone” flap, Emery wrote, because she too is a believer in the paranormal. Pell easily won reelection. Uri Geller took partial credit for this victory. “I will beam my energy to him to win,” he had told a reporter. (See the Denver Post, February 2, 1990, and “The Flip Side of Simone Is Enormous,” by C. Eugene Emery, Jr., in the Providence Journal-Bulletin, February 10, 1990.)

Jones left his job with Pell in 1991 to devote himself full-time as president of his Human Potential Foundation. Its offices are in Falls Church, Virginia, where Jones now lives. The foundation was originally financed by Laurance Spelman Rockefeller. Pell serves on its board. From 1985 until recently, Jones had been a trustee of the American Society for Psychical Research, serving as its president from 1989 until 1992.

It is not known what Pell plans to do after retiring. In reporting his decision not to run again, Time (September 18, 1995) headed its article “Senator Oddball.” For decades, said Time, Pell has been “Capitol Hill’s most eccentric denizen,” an inhabitant of the “Pell zone.” Among many Pellisms is his way of saying “formal greetings” when he meets someone, and “too peachy” to describe a flowery speech. His clothes are baggy tweeds, he seldom shaves, and he tends to mumble when in doubt. As a tribute to his wealthy father, he wears his father’s belt, which is so long that he has to wrap it twice around his waist. He even wears it jogging. Among his nicknames, said Time, are Stillborn Pell, Wellborn Pell, Senator Magoo, and the Senator from Outer Space.

When he planned one of his annual parties for staffers, Pell tried to borrow two camels from tobacco heiress Doris Duke, who also lived in Newport. He wanted the camels to graze on his lawn as a bizarre special attraction. Doris dissuaded him on the grounds that camels like to spit at people they don’t know.

Another member of Congress who is tireless in promoting psi is Rep.

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