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Updated: June 11, 2025
Still they work bravely away, obsessed with the idea of raising their own particular reef well out of the water at the cost of their own lives. The coral of a reef is an ugly brown substance which has been inelegantly compared to a decayed tooth. Not until the coral is pulverised does it take on its milk-white colour.
She had wanted to see the Unknown the awful thing that had inspired Kelson and his colleagues with such unmitigated horror and instead she had seen only an obsessed policeman a cataleptic "copper" who, had he not spoken in a strangely uncanny voice, would certainly have seemed to her absolutely ordinary. With regard to Hamar's displeasure, she was not in the slightest degree disturbed.
"I don't want to go, if you must know!" She blurted the answer rudely and turned away. "Augusta! Wait!" "I'm going to the hotel," she flung over her shoulder. She kept on walking. "Come back." Unlatching the gate she flung it open in defiance. "No!" She seemed like a person obsessed. Symes arose and walked quickly after her.
It is a terrible thing to be obsessed by a milkman. To Constable Plimmer's disordered imagination it seemed that, dating from this interview, the world became one solid milkman. Wherever he went, he seemed to run into this milkman.
My pre-war dilettante excursions into the literary world had long since come to an end. I was obsessed by the story of Lackaday; and so, out of sheer taedium vitae, and at the risk of a family quarrel, I shut myself up with the famous manuscript and my own reminiscences, and began to reduce things to such coherence as you now have had an opportunity of judging.
To a satirical onlooker it seemed that the nation had become insanely obsessed with the question of repeal: All men of virtue and intelligence know that all the ills of life scarcity of money, baldness, the comma bacillus, Home Rule, ... and the Potato Bug are due to the Sherman Bill.
From that time on he became a steady drinker, with now and then a short period when he would try to stop drinking, only to resume when he found himself obsessed again by the dreaded inferiority complex. This is the main theme of De Quincey's "Confessions of an Opium Eater."
But below any superficial sense of pleasure in outward things, thought of that likeness and likeness, dash it all, to whom? still vexed him as a riddle he failed to guess. Obligation to guess it, to find the right answer, obsessed him as of vital interest and importance, though, for the life of him, he could not tell why.
There is a pathetic exception in the outward lives of so many men of genius, the bloom being, to the instructed eye, only the indication of some subtle nervous derangement, only the forerunner of decay." The overmastering cerebral agitation that obsessed Wagner's life, was as with Chopin a symptom, not a sickness; but in the latter it had not yet assumed a sinister turn.
He it was who, obsessed by the fear that he might not survive ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, had, the moment he had been assured by Him that all the honor he coveted would, in the course of time, be his, swiftly rejoined that he had no guarantee that he would outlive Him.
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