He i said is afraid of a vacuum what is there in a vacuum to make one afraid said the flea there is nothing in it i said and that is what makes one afraid to contemplate it a person can t think of a place with nothing at all in it without going nutty and if he tries to think that nothing is something after all he gets nuttier

the lives and times of archy & mehitabel, the merry flea (p. 45)