Both Uses of
catatonic
in
Misery, by Stephen King
- The word which defined it was catatonia, but what frightened him had no such precise word, it was, rather, a vague comparison: in that moment he thought that her thoughts had become much as he had imagined her physical self: solid, fibrous, unchannelled, with no places of hiatus.†
Chpt 1catatonia = a medical condition in which there is a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
- Blanked for nearly three minutes, holding the rat in the air, a perfect case of waxy catatonia.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
(may give way to short periods of extreme excitement; often associated with schizophrenia)
(may give way to short periods of extreme excitement; often associated with schizophrenia)