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    Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    When
    Sir
    Beelzebub called for his syllabub in the hotel in Hell
    Where Proserpine first fell,
    Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

    As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting—the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
    Saul Bellow (b. 1915)