An idea from Essays

One of his own men, riding a big horse at full speed, crashed into him and knocked him flat. He lay more than 2 hours taken for dead and came round vomiting blood. What he felt near the edge was no terror, only the softness of sliding into sleep.

From Essays by Michel de Montaigne

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