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Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
The genius and the mortal instruments
Are then in council, and the state of man,
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection.

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William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Brutus, in Julius Caesar, act 2, sc. 1, l. 63-9.

A marvelous expression of a tormented mind living as it were an hallucination ("phantasma"), while the soul ("genius") on the one hand, and the mental and physical functions of the body on the other, are at odds.

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