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A T sea (cont.) 29.
20 minutes - time enough to gobble down food
& assume a more position - one which allows
some chance of keeping the food down long
enough for some digestion to take place.
Ahead of dying, the general letter is not -
what now makes eminent sense. Never
had the ocean seem so big, nor land & the
future so remote, as 20 minutes resolved
themselves into hours & days, & time moved
quickly only with sleep.
There were good days, before the
Promazine became ineffective, & then a few
before the , it made; proper pills failed
to take effect. I could quickly get used to
the pill, but not the motion some delicate
mechanism somewhere in the inner recesses of
the ear failed to realize that rolling is a
reasonable way of life, - so sent
message to various areas redery section
which the mind could fight only in vain.
The body & the mind in conflict, the reason
unable to halt the blind & futile process
of a stupid body, never had the two elements
been so clearly separated, never had
the battle been so clearly declared, & never
had rational thought - been so stubbornly
overpowered by the more material forces of
the stronger insistent body.