Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 58: Line 30 (1011):

Sir Oliver Lodge defined it as 'one continuous substance filling all space, which can vibrate light . . . be sheared into positive and negative electricity,' and so on in a lengthy list, almost like the Apostle's Creed.

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