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`Body and Soul Must Part' Robert Blair |
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5 | (1) |
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The Soul Hovering over the Body Luigi Schiavonetti after William Blake |
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6 | (1) |
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The Stolen Body H G Wells |
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7 | (7) |
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A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body Andrew Marvell |
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14 | (2) |
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The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow W W Denslow |
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16 | (1) |
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`Where the Soul Exercises Its Functions' Rene Descartes |
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17 | (1) |
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A Finely Fram'd and Well-Tun'd Organ-Case George Cheyne |
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18 | (1) |
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What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Thomas Nagel |
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19 | (4) |
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`What a Strange Nature Is Knowledge!' Mary Shelley |
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23 | (3) |
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`Superadded Consciousness' George Eliot |
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26 | (3) |
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Antechamber of Consciousness Francis Galton |
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29 | (4) |
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`The Perfect Combination' De Mirjian Studios |
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33 | (1) |
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`Teletransportation' Derek Parfit |
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34 | (4) |
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A Grand Transformation Scene F Anstey |
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38 | (4) |
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`Thou Splendid, Heavenly Lady!' ETW Hoffman |
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42 | (5) |
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Humanoid Robot Dianne Harris |
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47 | (1) |
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`Opinions Opposed to My Own' Alan Turing |
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48 | (3) |
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`Stream of Consciousness' William James |
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51 | (2) |
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`The Proper Approach' Francis Crick |
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53 | (2) |
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The Hippocampus Camillo Golgi |
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55 | (1) |
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Astrocytes Santiago Ramon y Cajal |
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56 | (1) |
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Golgi's Door Katherine Sherwood |
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57 | (1) |
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The Psychological Working of Colour Wassily Kandinsky |
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58 | (3) |
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`A Bed Filled with Bread Crumbs' H L Gold |
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61 | (8) |
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`Won't She Be Cross?' Morton Prince |
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69 | (2) |
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`The Brute that Slept within Me' Robert Louis Stevenson |
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71 | (8) |
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`The Hour of Deep Sleep' Charles Sherrington |
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79 | (2) |
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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81 | (1) |
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`The Dream' Unknown artist |
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82 | (1) |
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Recollections of Dreamland James Clerk Maxwell |
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83 | (2) |
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`The Dream' Unknown artist |
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85 | (1) |
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Stripes of Conscience Brocas |
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86 | (1) |
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`A True Portrait of My Nights' Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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87 | (2) |
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89 | (6) |
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95 | (1) |
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`Oliver Twist Sleeps' Charles Dickens |
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96 | (2) |
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Etymologies of the Nightmare Experience Owen Davies |
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98 | (2) |
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Nightmare Thomas Holloway after Henry Fuseli |
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100 | (1) |
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`The Will Presides Not' Erasmus Darwin |
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101 | (1) |
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A Child's Nightmare Robert Graves |
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102 | (2) |
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The Counterpane Herman Melville |
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104 | (2) |
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Fudo Myo-o Unknown artist |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (4) |
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111 | (1) |
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The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden |
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112 | (2) |
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`Les Reves' Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys |
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114 | (1) |
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Mesmeric Experience Harriet Martineau |
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115 | (2) |
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`Animal Magnetism' Unknown artist |
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117 | (1) |
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The Clairvoyant or, the Sleepwalker Gustave Courbet |
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118 | (1) |
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Sleep-Waking John Elliotson |
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119 | (1) |
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An Account of Jane C Rider L W Belden |
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120 | (2) |
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The Somnambulatory Butcher Anonymous |
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122 | (2) |
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`Extraordinary Plea of Somnambulism' Boston Daily Mail |
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124 | (7) |
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The Dumb House John Burnside |
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131 | (4) |
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`The Gang Mahal' Abu'l-Fazl |
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135 | (1) |
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A Report to an Academy Franz Kafka |
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136 | (2) |
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The Mark of the Beast Rudyard Kipling |
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138 | (4) |
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What Does Your Inner Voice Sound Like? Jennifer Hodgson |
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142 | (3) |
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Examples of Mistakes in Speech Sigmund Freud |
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145 | (3) |
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Speech Amnesia Johann A P Gesner |
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148 | (3) |
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`Syntactical Aphasia' Henry Head |
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151 | (1) |
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`Impotence of Memory after Paralysis' Robert J Graves |
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152 | (2) |
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`Something More Speakingly Incomprehensible' Jane Austen |
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154 | (1) |
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`Remorse Is Memory Awake' Emily Dickinson |
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155 | (1) |
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`The Thief Wilkie Collins |
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156 | (5) |
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Drawing a Blank Arthur W Pinero |
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161 | (3) |
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Feather Brain Sarah Grice |
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164 | (1) |
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`The Uncapturable Whirling Medley' Marcel Proust |
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165 | (5) |
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Memory Theatre Robert Fludd |
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170 | (1) |
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The Mind of a Mnemonist Alexander Luria |
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171 | (2) |
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How Reliable Is Your Memory? Elizabeth Loftus |
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173 | (4) |
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`Retroactive Hallucinations' Hippolyte Bernheim |
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177 | (3) |
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False Memory Archive: Erased UFOs A R Hopwood |
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180 | (5) |
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Playing Dead Andrew Hudgins |
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185 | (1) |
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Sarah Bernhardt Asleep in Her Coffin Unknown artist |
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186 | (1) |
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`This Borrow'd Likeness of Shrunk Death' William Shakespeare |
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187 | (1) |
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Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields W B Seabrook |
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188 | (1) |
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`Who Knows What She May Be Thinking?' Ernile Zola |
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189 | (6) |
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Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State The Multi-Society Task Force on PVS |
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195 | (1) |
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More Dead than Dead Kurt Gray, T Anne Knickman, Daniel M Wegner |
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196 | (3) |
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`Locked Inside a Box' Roger Highfield |
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199 | (4) |
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`Awareness under Anaesthesia' The Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland |
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203 | (2) |
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The Effects of Chloroform Richard Tennant Cooper |
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205 | (1) |
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The Halving Robin Robertson |
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206 | (1) |
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`Separated from His Senses' Henry David Thoreau |
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207 | (1) |
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The Effects of Liquid Chloroform Unknown artist |
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208 | (1) |
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`A Numbness of Spirit' Guy de Maupassant |
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209 | (2) |
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`A Stupefying and Overpowering Smell of Chloroform' Arthur Conan Doyle |
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211 | (5) |
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L'Inhumation Precipitee Antoine Joseph Wiertz |
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216 | (1) |
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`Sheer Terror' Edgar Allan Poe |
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217 | (2) |
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Count Karnice-Karnicki's Invention Unknown artist |
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219 | (1) |
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`Then There Was Silence' Edward Henry Bickersteth |
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220 | (1) |
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`As One Already Dead' Ambrose Bierce |
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221 | (7) |
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Body and Mind Dissolving Graham Coleman |
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228 | (2) |
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Raising Lazarus from the Tomb Unknown artist |
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230 | (1) |
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Experiments with Galvanism Giovanni Aldini |
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231 | (1) |
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`Designer Dying' Timothy Leary |
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232 | (3) |
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Mr Spaceship Philip K Dick |
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235 | (8) |
| Sources and Credits |
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