GR translation: headborn anorexias and constipations

[David Morris]

You're welcome. And thanks Bekah.

On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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?
>>>
>>
>
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