"In the mean time, he drank Madeira, and laid deep schemes for a thorough repair of the crazy fabric of human nature." - The Hermetic Library Blog

In the mean time, he drank Madeira, and laid deep schemes for a thorough repair of the crazy fabric of human nature. Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm 1, 2, 3, Local Library, Internet Archive] Consider also: “While he wasn’t capable of taking his mind off something like a human would, he could […]

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"But synthetical reasoning, setting up as its goal some unattainable abstraction, like an imaginary quantity in algebra, and commencing its course with taking for granted some two assertions which cannot be proved, from the union of these two assumed truths produces a third assumption, and so on in infinite series, to the unspeakable benefit of the human intellect." - The Hermetic Library Blog

But synthetical reasoning, setting up as its goal some unattainable abstraction, like an imaginary quantity in algebra, and commencing its course with taking for granted some two assertions which cannot be proved, from the union of these two assumed truths produces a third assumption, and so on in infinite series, to the unspeakable benefit of […]

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The War-song of Dinas Vawr by Thomas Love Peacock | Poetry Foundation

The mountain sheep are sweeter,