"In his office down town Mr. Andrew Pennington was opening his personal mail. Suddenly his fist clenched itself and came down on his desk with a bang; his face crimsoned and two big veins stood out on his forehead. He pressed a buzzer on his desk and a smart-looking stenographer appeared with commendable promptitude."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
"Happiness is not achieved by his conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." - Aldous Huxley
Word of the day:
Cryptesthesia - (noun) Psychology. Allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.
* Some experts attribute the jerking of the rod to cryptesthesia, some to divine or devilish inspiration, others to unconscious muscular activity, "sympathy", they call it, between the diviner and the object.
Michael Knight, Divining Rod, 2010
* ... Rector Boirac's metagnomical presentation of cryptesthesia during the First Universal Congress was, by his own admission, an example of group trance...
Joseph Skibell, A Curable Romantic, 2011.
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