Dudley Henriques wrote:
Personally though.....I like my old friend Mary Shafer's explanation for
lift that blames it on the "lift demons". :-)

No science like lift demons is ever the work of just one person. See for
example the collection titled:
"The Emerging Science of Lift Demons":

at this site:

http://www.main.org/polycosmos/glxywest/lift_faq.htm