News at Eleven: But Shelley delved there constantly.

He was fascinated by the difference between his physical self, dragged down with "languour" and kidney spasms and "slight attacks of typhus" and that other, extraordinary part of him, that

. . . aspires to Heaven,
Pants for its sempiternal heritage,
And, ever-changing, ever-rising still,
Wantons in endless being . . .

from The Guardian: Spirit for our age

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