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wittman commented on the word brain-fumes
Thomas Carlyle, 1843, "Past and Present": "...it is your Souls that lie dead, crushed down under despicable Nightmares, Atheisms, Brain-fumes; and are not Souls at all, but mere succedanea for salt to keep your bodies and their appetites from putrefying!"
July 27, 2009