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Futility

Nuzo Onoh

For readers of Oyinkan Braithwaite’s Betrayed by the men in their lives, two women seethe with rage and bitterness. When a trickster spirit offers them the gift of revenge, they cannot resist.

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This 1898 book detailed a ship called the Titan that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at night and sank due to a lack of lifeboats, which closely mirrored the real sinking of the Titanic 14 years later.

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there's a, I mean, there's a lot of, um, evidence of strange and unusual occurrences Sure. that support the idea of ESP. Yeah. Um, this article gives a really good one about, um, an 1898 book called F...

— Episode: Selects: How ESP Works (?)

Episode: Selects: How ESP Works (?)

This 1898 book detailed a ship called the Titan that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at night and sank due to a lack of lifeboats, which closely mirrored the real sinking of the Titanic 14 years later.

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there's a, I mean, there's a lot of, um, evidence of strange and unusual occurrences Sure. that support the idea of ESP. Yeah. Um, this article gives a really good one about, um, an 1898 book called Futility.

And in it, the guy details this book or this boat called the Titan. A ship. Yeah, a ship. A boat. A big old boat.

Which is sailing across the Atlantic and hits an iceberg at night and sinks and a bunch of people die because there weren't enough lifeboats.

And if that sounds familiar, the Titanic did the same exact thing. The Titanic, not the Titan. Yeah. Did the same exact thing 14 years later.

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