works = 'mental functioning' Obs.?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Cf. OED, work, n., 20a. But not quite. More like clockworks.

1917 Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/voices/holmes.html:  I am so far able
to transcend the to me convincing testimony of my sense or my reason as to
recognize that if I am [completely] alone [in a belief about the world]
probably something is wrong with my works.

JL

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