Olla Podrida
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781419138287
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary
First sentence: Reader, did you ever feel in that peculiarly distressing state of mind in which one oppressing idea displaces or colours every other, absorbing, intermingling with, empoisoning, and, like the filth of the harpy, turning every thing into disgust -when a certain incubus rides upon the brain, as the Old Man of the Mountain did upon the shoulders of Sinbad, burdening, irritating, and rendering existence a misery -when, looking around, you see but one object perched everywhere and grinning at you -when even what you put into your mouth tastes of but that one something, and the fancied taste is so unpleasant as almost to prevent deglutition -when every sound which vibrates in your ear appears to strike the same discordant note, and all and every thing will remind you of the one only thing which you would fain forget; -have you ever felt any thing like this, reader?