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

By Gelett Burgess

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 5, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664571496

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Gelett Burgess

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

Published by Good Press, 2019

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

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TO

ARE YOU A BROMIDE?

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

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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

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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

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GERTRUDE McCALL

CHATELAINE OF MAC MANOR

[Illustration]

AND DISCOVERER OF

THE SULPHITIC THEORY

ARE YOU A BROMIDE?

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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