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its very first incipience is cut off by sudden death? I am
far from saying that it is nothing at all: it is a would-have-been
the reality of which a sound logic cannot deny. But a habit being,
in any case, only a would-be, a would-have-been would-be is
is one the verge of not being at all. If anybody
could only adduce a single unmistakable case of thinking
a thought without any habit or other consequence, actual or
potential, that would suffice to explode my theory that thought and thinking
are essentially signs. But I, for my part,
can produce no better instance of such a phenomenon than the
following: It is not on the average, as often as twice a year
that I (unless in grave illness) retain the slightest vestige of recollection of any
dream sixty seconds after waking; for I wake up promptly. Never-