Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon

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and inquiries at his quarters revealed that he had been stricken with an obscure sort of fever and taken to the home of his family in Waterman Street.

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He had cried out in the night, arousing several other artists in the building, and had manifested since then only alternations of unconsciousness and delirium.

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My uncle at once telephoned the family, and from that time forward kept close watch of the case;

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calling often at the Thayer Street office of Dr. Tobey, whom he learned to be in charge.

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The youth’s febrile mind, apparently, was dwelling on strange things;

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and the doctor shuddered now and then as he spoke of them.

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They included not only a repetition of what he had formerly dreamed, but touched wildly on a gigantic thing “miles high” which walked or lumbered about.

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hour 4

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He at no time fully described this object, but occasional frantic words, as repeated by Dr. Tobey, convinced the professor that it must be identical with the nameless monstrosity he had sought to depict in his dream-sculpture.

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Reference to this object, the doctor added, was invariably a prelude to the young man’s subsidence into lethargy.

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His temperature, oddly enough, was not greatly above normal;

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