Ectoplasm

[Joe Varo]

On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, David Casseres wrote:

> Indeed, not just Newtonian mechanics (as an absolute) but the entire 
> post-Romantic, pre-Industrial world-system perished around 1900, leaving 
> a horrible sucking vacuum into which the Blavatskys and the Eckarts and 
> the rest of them spewed forth like foam off a dog's mouth.
>                  ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^
> [...]

Nice bit of Pavlovian imagery there...quite apropos.

Joe