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There Will Come Soft Rains
- In the kitchen, an instant before the rain of fire and timber, the stove could be seen making breakfasts at a psychopathic rate, ten dozen eggs, six loaves of toast, twenty dozen bacon strips, which, eaten by fire, started the stove working again, hysterically hissing!†
psychopathic = related to a chronic mental disorder that leads to violent social behavior
Definition:
someone with a chronic mental disorder that leads to violent social behavior
(previously a medical diagnosis which is now replaced with "antisocial personality disorder")
(previously a medical diagnosis which is now replaced with "antisocial personality disorder")