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ectoplasm

(n): (spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance
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2 months ago filmbuff83 said:

"He informed me that he was in the 'artistic game', and I gathered later that he was a photographer and had made the dim enlargement of Mrs. Wilson's mother which hovered like a ectoplasm on the wall." - F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

about 1 year ago AbraxasZugzwang said:

''I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.''
- Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man)

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