Word: flasks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curious, the senior sat down again. "It started last year," he continued, "when I was taking both Chem 20 and Chem 40. Labs every afternoon and after a while I began to imagine that I was an Erlenmeyer flask--Pyrex, you know, and shaped like this," he said as he waved his hands vaguely about...
...felt as if I were surrounded by a glass wall, cut off from the rest of the College by my continual labs. In short, I was in an Erlenmeyer flask and was slowly merging with...
...could enter into the world of Bohemia but I was cut off from that land by the glass wall. My acting--like a robot, they told me. I tried growing a beard but it was no use. I knew it was wrong, knew I was nothing but a Pyrex flask with a fiberglass beard. So I gave up and shaved it off. I began to think that perhaps it was my fate to become an Erlenmeyer flask. But fate or not, still I struggled...
...knew, though, that it was no use when I began to see people as walking biochemical factories. That was the day I resigned myself to being made of glass, to being an Erlenmeryer flask...
...state over all the affairs of the ward." Young poets and admirers came daily to his bedside, listened rapturously while the Master, his hospital nightcap jauntily askew, recited his poems aloud. Then they tiptoed out, after "carefully depositing under the inverted chamber pot a bottle of brandy, or a flask of absinthe, some cigars or tobacco...