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And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.

Thou hast imprinted on our being, O God, such singular phantasma of inconsequence, and hast made to rise such strange phenomena.

Serpents would too often glide across the table around which the gay company, himself a member, were assembled; or some other sudden and more appalling change scatter into fragments the bright phantasma of his dreams.

“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.”

Marcion, for example, regarded the body of Christ merely as an “umbra,” a “phantasma.”