James Boswell, that biographer and flawless mirror of Samuel Johnson, records the master essayist as having said, not exactly in these words, that when a man knows the gallows awaits him in a fortnight, the thought would grip him intensely. Boswellian presentation of Johnson’s thoughts is not the main point here.

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