The Feel of the East Wind: Ghostly Crossings between the Known and Beyond.

The texts and landscapes of my life work together in uncanny ways that are leading me to a divine beyond the closures of my skin and mind. My religious reading of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights particularly meshes with connected moments of experience in place that complicate and extend the possibilities of my divine. Here I leave Victoria, escorted by the grace of the East, to encounter Victorianist thinking that explores textual afterlives and ancestral haunting. This prepares me well to lose my singularity to the moors of Brontë's text. In a playful gothic gathering that follows, I begin to understand that textual emplacement and physical displacement create productive refractions between lingual, spacial and temporal prisms, creating boundless connections that perforate my containment with an echoing divine of faithful peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]