How do we explain the fact that the person who's conducting the seance knows things about, your history that only your dead uncle would know?"

我们怎么解释通灵的那个人,好像真的知道,只有你死去的叔叔才知道的故事

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.

有个故事是关于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他让理查坐在他的马车后,却连人带车掉到密西西比河里,这被作为了一个理查的真实笑话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选