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    Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom, Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use
    Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom, Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use
    Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom, Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use
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    Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom, Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use

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      Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom, Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use - Gelett Burgess

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      Title: Are You A Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded And Exemplified According To The Most Recent Researches Into The Psychology Of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now In Use

      Author: Gelett Burgess

      Release Date: January 30, 2004 [EBook #10870]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARE YOU A BROMIDE? ***

      Produced by Marvin A. Hodges and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      ARE YOU A BROMIDE?

      OR,

      THE SULPHITIC THEORY

      EXPOUNDED AND EXEMPLIFIED ACCORDING TO THE MOST RECENT RESEARCHES INTO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BOREDOM

      Including many well-known Bromidioms now in use

      BY

      GELETT BURGESS, S.B.

      Author of Goops and How to Be Them, The Burgess Nonsense Book,

      Vivette, &c., &c.

      WITH DECORATIONS BY THE AUTHOR

      Note: Decorations replaced with five asterisks * * * * *

      1906

      _NOTE

      This essay is reprinted, with revisions and enlargement additions, from The Sulphitic Theory published in The Smart Set for April, 1906, by consent of the editors._

      TO

      GERTRUDE McCALL

      CHATELAINE OF MAC MANOR

      [Illustration]

      AND DISCOVERER OF

      THE SULPHITIC THEORY

      ARE YOU A BROMIDE?

      The terms Bromide and Sulphite as applied to psychological rather than chemical analysis have already become, among the illuminati, so widely adopted that these denominations now stand in considerable danger of being weakened in significance through a too careless use. The adjective bromidic is at present adopted as a general vehicle, a common carrier for the thoughtless damnation of the Philistine. The time has come to formulate, authoritatively, the precise scope of intellect which such distinctions suggest and to define the shorthand of conversation which their use has made practicable. The rapid spread of the theory, traveling from Sulphite to Sulphite, like the spark of a pyrotechnic set-piece, till the thinking world has been over-violently illuminated, has obscured its genesis and diverted attention from the simplicity and force of its fundamental principles.[1] In this, its progress has been like that of slang, which, gaining in popularity, must inevitably decrease in aptness and definiteness.

      [Footnote 1: It was in April that I first heard of the Theory from the Chatelaine. The following August, in Venice, a lady said to me: Aren't these old palaces a great deal more sulphitic in their decay than they were originally, during the Renaissance?]

      In attempting to solve the problem which for so long was the despair of philosophers I have made modest use of the word theory. But to the Sulphite, this simple, convincing, comprehensive explanation is more; it is an opinion, even

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