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Updated: May 11, 2025
Not in its relations with the world, fair or ill such, like all external things, are important only as we take them: but in its diminished capacity to feel greatly and tenderly, in its added numbness, in its less noble beat. It was thus that the cor cordium lost what no lyric passion, no triumphant exultation of success, could give to it again.
The whole fabric of his thinking and feeling for months of intense emotional experience had instantly been annihilated, and he was left in the midst of a great void in his consciousness out of touching-reach of anything. There was no sharp pang, but just a bewildered numbness.
Still, the attempt must be made, and that instantly. Every second lessened the hope of its success with every pulse-beat he felt the awful, reeling numbness increase. How much longer he could retain his consciousness he could not tell. He saw plainly that Eleanor was losing hers.
We find comfort, we find numbness, we learn feats, to deceive others. But the most important thing, the path of paths, we will not find." "If you only," spoke Govinda, "wouldn't speak such terrible words, Siddhartha!
The time passes slowly in a sickhouse...! The doctors were here this morning, they give her forty hours. Not a word of complaint has passed her lips since she knew. To see her you would hardly think her ill; her cheeks have not had time to waste or lose their colour. There is not much pain, but a slow, creeping numbness.... It was John Ford's wish that she should be told.
A call! Who? Why? He wanted to rush out on the landing and shout to the servant: "Not at home! Gone away abroad!" . . . Any excuse. He could not face a visitor. Not this evening. No. To-morrow. . . . Before he could break out of the numbness that enveloped him like a sheet of lead, he heard far below, as if in the entrails of the earth, a door close heavily.
The act of dressing brought a slight relief; and then, at breakfast, a numbness stole over her suggested and conveyed, perchance, by the apathy of her mother. Something had killed suffering in Hannah; perhaps she herself would mercifully lose the power to suffer! But the thought made her shudder.
Just as he was losing hope and was ready to groan with despair, the face beneath the sailor hat was turned squarely in his direction. A glaze obscured his eyes, a numbness attacked his brain. It was Miss Guggenslocker! Why was her name omitted from the passenger list? That question was the first to whirl through his addled brain.
There was nothing left of his kingship but to snort regal defiance, to which his captors offered not the slightest retort. In his bonds he was carried off to the settlements, on the big logging-sled, drawn by the patient horses whom he scorned. After this ignominy, for days the King was submissive, with the sullen numbness of despair.
But now there was the new feeling the last new feeling which we shall any of us experience in this world that death was not only close at hand, but inevitable. He felt its numbness stealing up him stealing up him. But the head was clear, the brain more than commonly active in producing vivid impressions.
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