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And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down—
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing—then—
- Emily Dickinson
Attribution: Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), U.S. poet. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (l. 17–20). CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.

Categories: Sanity

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