the nerves in the brain (devil take them!) . . . they have these little tails, the nerves do; well, as soon as they start wiggling, that is, wiggling their little tails, when they start wiggling, an image appears, not immediately, but an instant, a second passes, and then there appears a moment . . . devil take this moment—but an image, that is, an object or an event, well, devil take it—and that’s why I contemplate and then I think . . . because of these little tails, and not at all because I have a soul and am made in the ‘image and likeness,’
An reference to neurology as it stood in the late 1800’s
