Like junkies, some “madmen” are quite reasonable, for they are aware that they act in an “irrational” manner — that their impulses or obsessions may be harmful to themselves and others, or could send them to prison; reason simply doesn’tstoptheir behavior. Madness, then, is not abse...
“Kit Williams” re-arranged neatly to spell “I will mask it”, and some saw this as evidence that the artist must be duping them. Williams published one more puzzle book - 1984's The Bee on the Comb - and then returned to the quiet life of a country painter. The book's quest ...
She was beaten, near to tears. “Five thousand guineas … going … going …” The face of the prince was a mocking devil-mask in gray and black. Lanyard found himself loathing it. Impossible to stand idle and see the creature get the better of an unhappy girl … “Five thousand one ...
"Me in a blanket?" said the frier: "by the dignity of man, I will twist the neck of every one of you as sure as ever the neck of a dunghill-cock was twisted." At which words he pulled off his mask, and the tremendous majesty of Colonel Bath appeared, from which the bucks ...
A wide door with double leaves admitted me into the hall or entry, on the right of which is the entrance to the bar-room. It was in this apartment, I presume, that the ancient governors held their levees, with vice-regal pomp, surrounded by the military men, the councillors, the ...