“Peggie, can you tell us first, please, exactly what extrasensory perception is and then, from your own knowledge, what it is that has just so amazingly occurred?”
The old journalist seized the ball with the safe hands of a cricketer, and when his familiar voice, husky and squeaky by turns, first sounded that evening in three-quarters of the living rooms in the land the actual moment of break-through occurred. The crust cracked and the first shoot of the new seedling—strange, awful, but wonderfully exciting—appeared to view.
“Extrasensory perception is a thumping bad term,” said Peggie. “Or I think so. The thing we’re talking about tonight is the communication between minds, animal or human, when no known mechanism is employed. We’ve all heard of it; we’ve all met it at some time or othe
