Both Uses of
paralysis
in
This Side of Paradise
- Then he would shake hands, using that slight, half-foreign bow, with all the starchy little females, and nod to the fellas who would be standing 'round, paralyzed into rigid groups for mutual protection.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- It not only inclines a young man to pneumonia and infantile paralysis, but to all forms of lung trouble, to which you are particularly inclined.†
Chpt 1.3
Definition:
loss of the ability to move the body or a part of it
or:
inability to act or make a decision
or:
inability to act or make a decision