NOW YOU’RE TALKING

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27500, 6 November 1954, Page 6

NOW YOU’RE TALKING

[By WHIM WHAMI . Mr K. Sheehan, an Irishman Limerick, completed 127 hours Of’ W®* i Oldham, Lancashire, and being attended by a doctor, he consciousness and said huskily, WjK ally I feel quite fit, but I’m exhfluiw 1 mentally.”—News item. It’s not unusual, not a BiL , ' I often feel like That — The Body, altogether fit, The Mind, completely flat: t Each Nerve relaxed, composed Limb, The Dinner well digested; While mental Processes are Or totally arrested; The Pulse as steady as a Clock* The Eye serene and bright--The Brain, no better than a Blocs Of senseless Ebonite. It’s a Condition, more or less, With Which I am acquainted; Though not by losing Consciousn"* Or talking till I’ve fainted . .« Even an Irishman, whose main Delight’s in Conversation— . A hundred Hours non-stop mu Bl s His Powers of Concentration! In Wind and Limb he may feel ft®* l And yet his Brain be reeling _ (How well I know the Danger'® B *' The too-familiar Feeling)— The Tongue and Jaw may (bedad!) With Energy unflagging: The Mind’s a Wreck, the Worw mad. The Sanity is sagging . . • * Bad Cess to Those who Pgfeiß* ' Although their Reason’s And they with Less and The More they go on speaKW Who flex the Muscle, fill And rant like Souls It’s not the Exertion of the It’s Thinking makes them urcw A Vote! A Vote! For one of #*** '■ And how the Prospects > They also serve (you’re teww Who only sit and listen. v «|