{"id":10610,"date":"2025-01-08T22:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/an-awfully-big-blog-adventure-charles-cold\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:34:35","slug":"an-awfully-big-blog-adventure-charles-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=10610","title":{"rendered":"An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Charles’ Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nThe common cold… indescribably dreary. Except that, in a letter to a friend in 1824, Charles Lamb did<\/i> describe it. At length. See if any of his words speak to you –<\/p>\n

Do you know what it is to succumb under an insurmountable day-mare,\u2014”a whoreson lethargy,” Falstaff calls it,\u2014an indisposition to do anything, or to be anything,\u2014a total deadness and distaste,\u2014a suspension of vitality,\u2014an indifference to locality,\u2014a numb, soporifical, good-for-nothingness,\u2014an ossification all over,\u2014an oyster-like insensibility to the passing events,\u2014a mind-stupor,\u2014a brawny defiance to the needles of a thrusting-in conscience…<\/i><\/p>\n

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Oh Charles – we do know – we do –<\/p>\n

This has been for many weeks my lot, and my excuse; my fingers drag heavily over this paper, and to my thinking it is three-and-twenty furlongs from here to the end of this demi-sheet. I have not a thing to say; nothing is of more importance than another; I am flatter than a denial or a pancake; emptier than Judge Parke’s wig when the head is in it; duller than a country stage when the actors are off it; a cipher, an o! I acknowledge life at all, only by an occasional convulsional cough, and a permanent phlegmatic pain in the chest… <\/i><\/p>\n

Your words touch us – tell us more of the details of your discomfort – <\/p>\n

I am weary of the world; life is weary of me. My day is gone into twilight, and I don’t think it worth the expense of candles. My wick hath a thief in it, but I can’t muster courage to snuff it. I inhale suffocation; I can’t distinguish veal from mutton; nothing interests me… If you told me the world will be at an end to-morrow, I should just say, “Will it?” I have not volition enough left to dot my i’s, much less to comb my eyebrows; my eyes are set in my head; my brains are gone out to see a poor relation in Moorfields, and they did not say when they’d come back again; my skull is a Grub-street attic to let\u2014not so much as a joint-stool or a crack’d jordan left in it; my hand writes, not I, from habit, as chickens run about a little, when their heads are off…<\/i><\/p>\n

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If you are find yourself being just such a chicken, feel better soon. This too will pass, believe it or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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