GR translation: headborn anorexias and constipations

[David Morris]

Anorexia and constipation cover both ends of eating.  The first shuts
off intake.  The second shuts off release.  "Headborn" in this context
would mean psychosomatic, meaning caused by the mind, not "real"
physical causes (as opposed to the "bombed out, frozen, starved,
meanly sheltered).  Pointsman's experience is with "genteel" symptoms,
imagined, not real.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> P172.36-P173.2   They are blacks, Indians, Ashkenazic Jews speaking
> dialects you never heard in Harley Street: they have been bombed out,
> frozen, starved, meanly sheltered, and their faces, even the
> children’s, all possess some ancient intimacy with pain and reverse
> that amazes Pointsman, who is more polarized upon West End catalogues
> of genteel signs and symptoms, headborn anorexias and constipations
> the Welshman could have little patience with.
>
> What does "headborn" mean?
>