III.
Departed to the judgment,
A mighty afternoon;
Great wires like lightning forking,
Students looking on.
The flesh excited, electrified,
But experiment awry;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse:
The patient over-fried.
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The actual mortified one. Interpretation. Image: The Extraction of the Stone of Madness (The Cure of Folly) by Hieronymous Bosch.
Emily Dickinson's Trashcan 