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habitually before retiring for the night alleviated fatigue and
produced as a result sound repose and renovated vitality.
His justifications?
As a physicist he had learned that of the 70 years of com-
plete human life at least 2/7, viz. 20 years are passed in sleep.
As a philosopher he knew that at the termination of any
allotted life only an infinitesimal part of any person’s de-
sires has been realised. As a physiologist he believed in the
artificial placation of malignant agencies chiefly operative
during somnolence.
What did he fear?
The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an
aberration of the light of reason, the incommensurable cat-
egorical intelligence situated in the cerebral convolutions.
What were habitually his final meditations?
Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause passers
to stop in wonder, a poster novelty, with all extraneous ac-
cretions excluded, reduced to its simplest and most efficient
terms not exceeding the span of casual vision and congru-
ous with the velocity of modern life.
What did the first drawer unlocked contain?
A Vere Foster’s handwriting copybook, property of Mil-
ly (Millicent) Bloom, certain pages of which bore diagram
drawings, marked Papli, which showed a large globular
head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile, the trunk full front
with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot: 2 fading photographs
of queen Alexandra of England and of Maud Branscombe,
actress and professional beauty: a Yuletide card, bearing on
it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend