The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes stress: turn off parasympathetic, turn on the sympathetic, and forget about digestion.
Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.