A single physical quality may lead the mind that is engaged upon it to an infinity of different things.

Take a colour--yellow, for instance; gold is yellow, silk is yellow, care is yellow, bile is yellow, straw is yellow; to how many other threads does not this thread answer?
Madness, dreaming, the rambling of conversation, all consist in passing from one object to another, through the medium of some common quality."[220] _Annihilation._--"The conversation took a serious turn.

They spoke of the horror that we all feel for annihilation.
"'Ah,' cried Father Hoop, 'be good enough to leave me out, if you please.

I have been too uncomfortable the first time to have any wish to come back.

If they would give me an immortality of bliss for a single day of purgatory, I would not take it.