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Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

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Eugene Field
Age: 45 †
Born: 1850
Born: September 3
Died: 1895
Died: November 4
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St. Louis
Missouri
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