Cachexy: (n.) A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).
J.A. Symonds describes the maladie du siècle as, "the nondescript cachexy, in which aspiration mingles with discontentment, satire and scepticism with a child-like desire for the tranquility of reverence and belief- in which self-analysis has been pushed to the verge of monomania, and all springs of action are clogged and impeded by the cobwebs of speculation."
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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So, you can get that from toilet seats, then?
Well, unless they spray the place with DDT...
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