COL 49 Chapter 4 Starters

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Patrick P. Lynch schrieb:

> Does she [oedipa] have some kind 
> of disease like epilepsy that makes her see connections?


  interesting. then, perhaps, what follows the novel's last sentence is the 
  moment of  f a l l i n g  into unconscious ecstasy, the "extra-genital whole 
  body orgasm" (reich) your medical lexicon knows as "epileptic attack". in 
  ancient rome healers called this fallsucht "morbus sacer". holy disease. 


                             thanks for your detailed notes! kai frederik