(np) Yeats / unusual person who ate botulinum on purpose

[Michael Bailey]

Stray thought…when Yeats said “mere anarchy is loosed on the world”
He may have intended the French allusion, “mère” anarchy, like, Mother
Anarchy?

On an unrelated note, a friend of a friend was a massage therapist who was
massive and burly and apparently felt himself sufficiently vigorous to
ingest a vial of active botulism given him by a friend who worked in a lab
- he said he’d tried this with other germs and thrown off all the
infections with ease. But the botulism put him in the hospital.

The people one meets, eh? I really didn’t get enough details before he was
onto the next tale (something about jumping out of an open grave to scare
people, and then he moved on to telling about his massage clients, mostly
strippers he said. He really had a lot of stories!)
 Was he insured? Would this be covered?