In the weaker and finest bodies Manna may be sufficient, […] or my Deobstructive powder, which I have observed hath done singularly well.

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.

His cowt grew reezy, its lang tail 'Twad swash, and lugs wad birr up, At length it cuist him, and did trail Him hame, by fit i'e stirrup,

This is the precise point of either the optimal frustration that Spitz requires of the mother towards the child, or of Winnicott's mysterious good enough mother: they are called upon to break the primary narcissism in which the mother and child are bound, from anaclisis to diatropism, so that, with the advent of autoeroticism, and at the same time as representation and language, a relationship of the object is finally begun.