Sublime

“It could be that anxiety, at its root, isn’t a psychological problem at all.”

I spent the next hour getting reacquainted with warmth and hygiene, two long-lost friends I hadn’t seen in over five months at sea.

If you do not abide by the rules of physiology and pacing, your body and brain will fail you (since you simply cannot fight against your own physiology and psychology).

He also drank a cup of shark liver oil each day from the big drum in the shack where many of the fishermen kept their gear. It was there for all fishermen who wanted it. Most fishermen hated the taste. But it was no worse than getting up at the hours that they rose and it was very good against all colds and grippes and it was good for the eyes.

The Sleep specialist (or, ‘Somnologist’) in charge of our case, a large, mild mannered, burly, heavily set fellow with a lead colored crew cut and what appeared to be an extraordinary number of keys on a promotional ‘Parke Davis, Inc.’ key ring—his manner pleasant in the neutral, subdued and punctilious way of morticians and certain types of Hortic

speed was an advantage, but physical resilience was a necessity.

bathos

We are the species that has sacrificed breath for speech.

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