Carlos Eire. Eire grew up, as it were, with the anomalous. In his mind, the strangest thing about his own family history was his father, who was deeply committed to Spiritualism and Theosophy and who claimed to see ghosts and remember previous lives. Eire’s father also claimed that his father (who died in 1927 from an infected paper cut on his tongue caused by an envelope he licked carelessly) had been expelled from his Jesuit school because he had accidentally caught a glimpse of some Jesuits levitating a table.
