From Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1791), which I am rereading as an unabridged edition: the first paragraph is impossible with Google, the second with Twitter.
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As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable – until I realized it wasn’t a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!
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