Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pray for the whole state of Christ's Church Militant." 6) Alter the instructions in the burial service in order to permit reading of the service over the body of a suicide and of an unbaptized person. Also, substitute "though this body be destroyed" for "though after my skin worms destroy this body...
...Skin for Skin?Llewellyn Powys ?Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). The three literary brothers Powys all gnaw without cease at the mouldering bones of old mortality. Llewelyn ("Lulu"), whose journal this book is, has best reason: for 16 years his lungs have harbored ghostly, blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the cheeriest, takes himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children...
...talk about at the luncheon table. A detailed description of personal diseases, for instance, however arresting the symptoms, rarely furnishes appetizing aliment for conversation; revelations of exotic fissures or cavities in the teeth (illustrated) often fail to elicit applause; while a discussion of loathsome and fatal afflictions of the skin, together with an account of the sufferer's pangs and an outline of the methods used to relieve same constitutes a type of data even less acceptable to the fastidious...
...Probability is the rule of life-especially under the skin. Never make a positive diagnosis...
Symptoms, in the beginning, are those which attend the incubation of various diseases-irregular fever dizziness, hyperaesthesia of the skin, pains in the arms and legs, loss of sexual power. Forebodings appals the sufferer; faceless shapes of doom brawl in his mind; ulcers corrupt his arms; his skin greys; his eyebrows, loosened, overhang his eyes like disheveled blinds; while his voice shrinks and becomes raucous, as if he contended for possession of it with an evil spirit. Little by little, as his body rots, an odor pervades it, more deathly and infinitely more revolting than that of the carnal house...