Detachments Operated

Famous quotes containing the words detachments and/or operated:

    Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    It seemed there was a sort of poisoning, an auto-infection of the organisms, so Dr. Krokowski said; it was caused by the disintegration of a substance ... and the products of this disintegration operated like an intoxicant upon the nerve-centres of the spinal cord, with an effect similar to that of certain poisons, such as morphia, or cocaine.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)