convulsional

Updated: May 23, 2025

I am flatter than a denial or a pancake; emptier than Judge Parke's wig when the head is in it; duller than a country stage when the actors are off it, a cipher, an o! I acknowledge life at all only by an occasional convulsional cough and a permanent phlegmatic pain in the chest.

Charles Lamb - The Best Letters of Charles Lamb