Back to AtD Cyprian remeeting Yashmeen, pp876ff

[Mark Kohut]

"[Cyprian's] self-regard..[not much more than]a newborn gnat's eyelash."
What is the opposite of self-regard? Egolessness? ......Moral height?

Then Yashmeen wants him, really, really wants him...and THAT seems to
turn him on. "He thought he knew being aflame. But this was sustained explosion,
reaching now and then a quite unendurable brisance."

bri·sance   /brɪˈzɑns; Fr. briˈzɑ̃s/ Show Spelled[bri-zahns; Fr. bree-zahns] Show IPA 
noun 
the shattering effect of a high explosive. 

Origin: 
1910–15; < French, equivalent to bris ( er ) to break (< Celtic; akin to Irish brisim  (I) break) + -ance -ance
 
 
Virtually repeated and an almost new word at the time it is used, why? 
Remind of the orgasm Cyprian had with no sexual contact, with helping another?
 
And, the purposely mirrored opposite of the bomb blasts that kill?
 
And ties in with the dynamite blast after which Lew felt "grace"?
 
Is the psychology believeable? Just symbolically or more?
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