sleepfulness

Updated: May 28, 2025

There are forms of words which will cure insomnia and indeed, if one may trust current observation, forms of words not primarily so intended may still induce sleepfulness. The history of the king's touch as particularly helpful in epilepsy and scrofula, though useful also for the healing of various diseases, is especially interesting.

Gaius Glenn Atkins - Modern Religious Cults and Movements

Only dimly do I remember those moments only dimly do I remember looking through the lawyer at Apollyon's clean collar only dimly do I remember the gradual collapse of the captain of gendarmes, his slow but sure assumption of sleepfulness, the drooping of his soggy tete de cochon lower and lower till it encountered one hand whose elbow, braced firmly upon the table, sustained its insensate limpness only dimly do I remember the enthusiastic antics of the little red-head when I spoke with patriotic fervour of the wrongs which La France was doing mon ami et moi only dimly do I remember, to my right, the immobility of The Wooden Hand, reminding one of a clothing dummy, or a life-size doll which might be made to move only by him who knew the proper combination.... At the outset I was asked: Did I want a translator?

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room