John William Waterhouse Mariana in the South painting

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breath: what a pong. When did he last clean his teeth?"
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One man's breath was sweetened, while another's, by an equal and opposite mystery, was soured. What did they expect? Falling like that out of the sky: did they imagine there would be no sideeffects? Higher Powers had taken an interest, it should have been obvious to them both, and such Powers (I am, of course, speaking of myself) have a mischievous, almost a wanton attitude to tumbling flies. And another thing, let's be clear: great falls change people. You think _they_ fell a long way? In the matter of tumbles, I yield pride of place to no personage, whether mortal or im--. From clouds to ashes, down the chimney you might say, from heavenlight to hellfire. . . under the stress of a long plunge, I was saying, mutations are to be expected, not all of them random. Unnatural selections. Not much of a price to pay for suThis indirect effect may offer a clue to processes of dream formation, i.e., that emotion is the first step in a dream's representation of an important external event," he said in an email.rvival