GR translation: headborn anorexias and constipations

[Mike Jing]

Got it.  That was my guess too.  Just want to be sure.

Thanks, David.

Mike

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:21 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>