fish bones. We eat fish about once a week, and it has to be totally bone free, because if I come across a bone, I start gagging. It's not so much a conscious fear, just a physical reaction, which I think must be a conditioned response from when it was a conscious fear. If that makes sense...
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There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Thomas Carlyle in essay on Sir Walter Scott
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