LIFE.
£1 6 <3> Our brains arc seventy-year clocks. Tho angel oj* lifo winds 0 <3> tliem up at once and for all, then closes the cases, and gives the key 0 into tlie hand of tho angel of resurrection. " Tic-tac, tic-tac! "go tho wheels of thought; our will cannot stop .g, <3 them; madness only makes them go faster. Death alono can break <g> & into the case, and, seizing tho ever-swinging pendulum which we call <g> "3" tlie heart, silence at last tho clicking of tiio terrible escapement wo £}> ■S havo carried so loner beneath our aching foreheads.—Holmes, s $ a.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20152, 12 January 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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101LIFE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20152, 12 January 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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