Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon

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Here was a nocturnal suicide in London, where a lone sleeper had leaped from a window after a shocking cry.

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Here likewise a rambling letter to the editor of a paper in South America, where a fanatic deduces a dire future from visions he has seen.

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A despatch from California describes a theosophist colony as donning white robes en masse for some “glorious fulfilment” which never arrives, whilst items from India speak guardedly of serious native unrest toward the end of March.

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Voodoo orgies multiply in Hayti, and African outposts report ominous mutterings.

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American officers in the Philippines find certain tribes bothersome about this time, and New York policemen are mobbed by hysterical Levantines on the night of March 22–23.

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The west of Ireland, too, is full of wild rumour and legendry, and a fantastic painter named Ardois-Bonnot hangs a blasphemous “Dream Landscape” in the Paris spring salon of 1926.

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And so numerous are the recorded troubles in insane asylums, that only a miracle can have stopped the medical fraternity from noting strange parallelisms and drawing mystified conclusions.

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A weird bunch of cuttings, all told;

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and I can at this date scarcely envisage the callous rationalism with which I set them aside.

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But I was then convinced that young Wilcox had known of the older matters mentioned by the professor.

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