convulsion quotes

It seemed unprovoked, a wilful convulsion of brute nature†

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Weir of Hermiston (published1896), ch.9,'At theWeaver's Stone'.These are the last words of the unfinished novel, dictated by Stevenson on the morning of his death from a blood-clot on the brain.

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