GR translation: coffee mess

Bekah bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Mon May 7 11:44:55 CDT 2012


Oh my idea about  "the coffee mess"  was just that he had to go clean up the little mess he'd made with coffee and cups and spills and so on.   That's a bit of reality compared to what he's been thinking about: 

 "... whole number of other occult things such as: astral
projection, brain control (nothing occult about that), secret curses
for impotence, boils, madness,..."

so he comes back to his physical world and remembers the coffee mess he should clean up.  (Sounds like my world.)

Bekah

On May 7, 2012, at 5:15 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> On 5/7/2012 1:18 AM, Prashant Kumar wrote:
>> The soggy mass of grounds left after making coffee?
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> I thought of another possibility.  Maybe they're putting something in the coffee.  Saltpeter, for example, to control sexual urges.
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> Mess, in military parlance (American, don't know about British) means the place where meals are served, so, by extension, the coffee cart.
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> Just a possibility.
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>> On 7 May 2012 14:46, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
>> <mailto:gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>    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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