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Rhapsody to the Brain

Rhapsody to the Brain

"The Interior Castle," by Jean Stafford

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What Pansy thought of all the time was her own brain. Not only the brain as the seat of consciousness, but the physical organ itself which she envisaged, romantically, now as a jewel, now as a flower…

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