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But Keats describes the bees' labor as a gentle delusion ("they think warm days will never cease").
So let us note: James Joyce's novel is Finnegans Wake (1939), not “Finnegan's,” E. M. Forster's is Howards End (1910) (another house name, by the way), not “Howard's,” and, a potential double delusion, Shakespeare's famous play is Love's Labour's Lost (1598), with two apostrophes.
He discovered that his wife, 38, was discussing more than drywall with their married contractor, 40, when the pair was photographed by the Globe . The publication seems to have a sort of social consciousness about not letting celebrities suffer the delusion that they are happily married.
Again" ( Self , 1997), she has hacked her way through three decades wrapped in a delusion torn from the Oliver Sacks casebook: The Woman Who Mistook Herself for Someone Interesting.
Anyone laboring under the delusion that English is not an acquisitive language should be disabused by the following caption from an article about delicatessens that appeared in the Magazine Section of The Sunday Times [London], 7 January 1989: [“Foreignisms” are so set in the original.