What acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty.

It was deemed meritorious to disfigure the body by neglect and filth, to extenuate it by fasting and watchfulness, to lacerate it with stripes, and to fret the wounds with cilices of horsehair.

In my salubrious constituency of Cheltenham and in the leafy lanes of Gloucestershire, we are perhaps somewhat closeted from these unpleasant and harsh realities of the urban world of London, Plymouth, Birmingham and other major cities

Was this vision “real” or an illusion? It was wholly different in quality from the pseudostereo, the confounding illusions of depth and distance I would sometimes have with lines on the ground, where there was not, in reality, any depth at all.