“What I’m really wondering is why notices were posted and invitations sent out at all: If it’s a psychics’ convention, shouldn’t everyone just know where and when to meet?”

—  Diane Ackerman, book A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 2 “Touch” (p. 115)

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