The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporar — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporar — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporar — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporar — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporar — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
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The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporary, fix for a breaking mind, a coping strategy for a life that had become too brutally contradictory to sustain otherwise.

— Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
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