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Documents of Mental Decadence.

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I became good, and was despised.

I became bad; I hated was.

If good or bad I was not prized,

In good or evil, equal loss.

I became bad and good by turns,

And thus did but unite two ills.

The spleen that now within me burns

Therefrom, nor good nor evil stills.

Alexander Search.

24-10-08.