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... mind cannot keep her body in check , it is not really a mind that she has , but only an unregulated substance which needs some reason and authority to guide it , a body without a head . 166 The motive of headless woman appears in the ...
... mind cannot keep her body in check , it is not really a mind that she has , but only an unregulated substance which needs some reason and authority to guide it , a body without a head . 166 The motive of headless woman appears in the ...
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... mind ( or of one's mind ) , of the mechanism which in reasonable creatures stops functioning only in sleep . A madman actually never wakes up , and like Tryon's God , continually speaks the uncensored flow of whatever comes to his mind ...
... mind ( or of one's mind ) , of the mechanism which in reasonable creatures stops functioning only in sleep . A madman actually never wakes up , and like Tryon's God , continually speaks the uncensored flow of whatever comes to his mind ...
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... mind as the mode of being reasonable Imlac identifies reason with madness . The ability to be sane is the ability to control and govern the vapours within one's mental climate , to keep them in check , to let some rain fall when it ...
... mind as the mode of being reasonable Imlac identifies reason with madness . The ability to be sane is the ability to control and govern the vapours within one's mental climate , to keep them in check , to let some rain fall when it ...
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