Try and picture to yourself a sort of crab, or a kind of octopus, or a very large spider which nibbles at you and sucks at you and little by little drains away the whole of the inside of your head.

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12 seconds sound clip from the Dr Knock (Theatre Royal 1954) classic radio drama series episode.

You can hear this line at 00:20:49.272 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- Insomnia, for instance, which was due to some organic disease of the intracerebral circulation, that change in the arterial walls which we call atheroma.

- Your cerebral arteries, madame, that is, the arteries that feed the brain, it is possible may be as hard and as brittle as pipe stems.

- Oh, pipe stems.

- A common comparison.

- Oh, good heavens. Would smoking bring that on? I do smoke a little, you know.

- We may have to take that into account.

- Then again, insomnia may come from a constant sapping of the grey matter of the brain by nerves which are diseased.

- Oh, how dreadful. Oh, can you explain that, doctor?

- But of course.

- Try and picture to yourself a sort of crab, or a kind of octopus, or a very large spider which nibbles at you and sucks at you and little by little drains away the whole of the inside of your head.

- Oh, oh, oh, how terrible. Oh, that's what the matter. Oh, I knew it.

- Oh, doctor, I'd rather die at once. Oh, I'd rather you killed me.

- Oh, oh, I'm going to faint. The pain, the pain's coming on. Oh, hadn't you better give me a little morphine? I can't face it. I simply can't face it.

- I'd sooner be told straight out. I must know. I must know. Is it absolutely fatal?

- Can it be cured?

- You're not deceiving me. I'd rather know the worst. I'll be brave.

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