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He expected the chemical would addle mitochondria in every organ.

RAYYAN, Qatar — It would overstate it to say the bones in the match at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium creaked loudly enough to addle the decorative camels at the adjacent Mall of Qatar, but two old warhorses did go at it Thursday night with the mission of seeing off one.

“I dim the eyes and addle the brain. Every mortal fears old age!”

“The creepiness of this holiday destination,” Sarah Lyall writes in her latest thrillers column, “is enhanced by intermittent excerpts from fake historical documents and other sources, all testifying to Meroe’s tendency to addle the minds and cut short the lives of visitors, some of whom consumed one another after a shipwreck there in the 19th century. ‘That place has bad vibes,’ a more recent tourist says on Twitter.

And, as to hopes of a glorious resurrection, I’ve often heard him say masel’ that he hoped he’d go to hell, for his mother was so pious that she’d be sure to go to heaven, an’ he didn’t want to addle where she was.