"What's a Thanatoid. OK, it's actually short for 'Thanatoid Personality.' 'Thanatoid' means 'like death, only different.'" (Vineland, p. 170)

[John Bailey]

Beautiful association, Kai.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>
> There is a Languor of the Life
> More imminent than Pain —
> 'Tis Pain's Successor — When the Soul
> Has suffered all it can —
>
> A Drowsiness — diffuses —
> A Dimness like a Fog
> Envelops Consciousness —
> As Mists — obliterate a Crag.
>
> The Surgeon — does not blanch — at pain
> His Habit — is severe —
> But tell him that it ceased to feel —
> The Creature lying there —
>
> And he will tell you — skill is late —
> A Mightier than He —
> Has ministered before Him —
> There's no Vitality.
>
>
> E. D., # 396
>
> ------------------------------------------
> "Emily Dickinson,
> never far away ..."
>
> (Gravity's Rainbow, p. 28)
>
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