10/39 He revives, in a manner; he recovers movement and sensibility. He is affected by the stimulus of a needle; he shifts his place, crawls, puts out his tentacles, as though nothing unusual had occurred. The general torpor, a sort of deep drunkenness, has vanished outright. What name shall we give to that form of existence which, for a time, abolishes the power of movement and the sense of pain? |