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Re: psychoceramics: The Cincinnati Group
- To: p--@z--.net, shalizi@math.wisc.edu
- Subject: Re: psychoceramics: The Cincinnati Group
- From: Ken Alexander <kalex @ eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 19:32:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-psychoceramics
> Who was the person
> (years ago now) claiming that chickens could transmute elements?
Louis Kervran was the original dork with the transmutating chickens,
and several people on the net have expoused his views since.
> Wasn't McElwaine (of happy memory) very into transmutation?
Checking my McElwaine archive... ah yes.
http://polyphemus.engin.umich.edu/mcelwaine/rants/biological-alchemy
And doing a web search on kervran+chickens turned up the following
little treasure by a "Doctor Thomas Henry Moray".
Check out the perfectly McElwainian capitalization! Eerie.
http://www.livelinks.com/sumeria/phys/moray4.html
Deep psychoceramic question: why is there such a high correlation
between weird capitalization and weird beliefs?