GR translation: coffee mess

[Prashant Kumar]

The soggy mass of grounds left after making coffee?

On 7 May 2012 14:46, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

> P127.2-10   . . . oh yes a most superb possibility has found seedbed
> in his brain, and here it is. What if they are all, all these Psi
> Section freaks here, ganged up on him in secret? O.K.? Yes: suppose
> they can see into your mind! a-and how about—what if it’s hypnotism?
> Eh? Jesus: then a whole number of other occult things such as: astral
> projection, brain control (nothing occult about that), secret curses
> for impotence, boils, madness, yaaahhh—potions! (as he straightens at
> last and back in his mind’s eyes to his office now glances, very
> gingerly, at the coffee mess, oh God . . . ), ...
>
> What is "the coffee mess"?  Specifically, what is the meaning of
> "mess" here?  Does he make coffee in his office using the water boiled
> in the Erlenmeyer flask mentioned earlier?  Does he make a mess of it?
>  Or is it something else?
>
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