AtD translation: stood there as if professionally sapped

[Monte Davis]

Stunned or dazed by a blow to the head with a sap (= blackjack).
"Professionally" suggests an expert who can gauge the blow (or sermon) just
short of unconsciousness

http://www.donrearic.com/sap.html

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 7:14 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P86.29-38   “Brother, we are stripes and solids on the pool table of
> earthly existence,” the Rev explained, “and God and his angels are the
> sharpers who keep us ever in motion.” Instead of dismissing this for the
> offhanded preacherly drivel it almost certainly was, Webb, in what you’d
> have to call a state of heightened receptivity, stood there as if
> professionally sapped for another quarter of an hour after the Rev had
> moved on, ignored by the pernicious bustle of Myers Street, and the
> following Sunday could be observed in the back room of the faro
> establishment where Reverend Gatlin preached his ministry, listening as if
> much, maybe all, depended on it, to the sermon, . . .
>
> What does "sapped" mean here?
>
>
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