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		throwaway9475 on April 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) ... It also pays to realize that when people say something makes them feel "deathly ill", they're probably using it as an expression to signify how shaken they are by something.

armitron on April 13, 2017 [–]

Which does not contradict anything that I wrote. "Shaken" can also be an unexamined reaction.

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