“. . . or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead . . . –Deuteronomy 18:11.

Seeking the dead among the living.

From the Daily Mail:

‘She was clearly on top of his mind:’

White House says Biden, 79, looking for dead Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski was ‘not all that unusual’, says Americans ‘understand’ and insists it wasn’t a mistake in utterly ludicrous defense of blunder.

What mind?

Or: If he had a mind, there was something on it.–P. G. Wodehouse.

UPDATE: Related thoughts here: Lost in Space.