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Quotes About Ectoplasm

Sometimes we took refuge in our diving bell while waves of charge and magnetism spiraled languidly past, like boluses of ectoplasm coursing down the intestine of some poltergeist god.
~ Peter Watts
Would ectoplasm be considered an amenity? As I have said, I personally define an amenity as a specific and unexpected add-on to the hotel experience.
~ Rick Moody
Poor Dr. Montague, Eleanor thought, standing aside to let the doctor take his wife into the dining room; he is so uncomfortable; I wonder how long she is going to stay. "I wonder how long she is going to stay?" Theodora whispered in her ear. "Maybe her suitcase is filled with ectoplasm," Eleanor said hopefully. "And how long will you be able to stay?" Dr. Montague asked, sitting
~ Shirley Jackson
We were a total mess. We'd been up all night. We smelled of ectoplasm, salt, and fear. We looked at one another, and grinned. Then we began laughing.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Maybe one reason I do not wear makeup is to scare people. If they're close enough, they can see something is different with me, something unnerving, as if I have no features, I am embryonic, pre-eyebrows, pre-eyelids, pre-mouth, I am like a water bear talking to them, or an amniotic traveler, a vitreous floater on their own eyeball, human ectoplasm risen on its hind legs to discourse with them.
~ Sharon Olds
Observation point, he said, pointing to the wooden sign in front of us that said, OBSERVATION POINT. NO LITTERING. A lot of kids come here on Saturday night. Micheal cleared his throat and looked at me meaningfully. And park. I have to say, up until that moment I really had no idea I was capable of moving so fast as I did getting out of that car. But I was unbuckled and out of that seat quicker than you could say ectoplasm.
~ Meg Cabot
Fascynowa?y go formy graniczne, w?tpliwe i problematyczne, jak ektoplazma somnambulików, pseudomateria, emanacja kataleptyczna mózgu, która w pewnych wypadkach rozrasta?a si? z ust u?pionego na ca?y stó?, nape?nia?a ca?y pokój, jako bujaj?ca, rzadka tkanka, astralne ciasto, na pograniczu cia?a i ducha.
~ Bruno Schulz
Please note, you future dead persons, whenever you shut off a fluorescent bulb or a cathode ray tube and see a residual photon-green glow, that glow is trapped human ectoplasm. Ghosts are forever being snared in lightbulbs.
~ Chuck Palahniuk