Beads of light travel from the top of the frame, like bubbles heading to a cartoon balloon showing what one of the undrawn characters is thinking. The unwords are off screen. By a similar process, back at the Society for Supernormal Photography, the dead tried to speak to Ella, and the dead wife of Zoltan Abbassid was therefore able to bring up the subject of the car and that country road.     It was a mechanism of astonishing complexity.