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- I am careful and accurate, but I have drawn a person-shaped bottle, inert and without life.†
p. 298.2 *
- Only to think of it makes me feel suffused, inert, like the flesh of a watermelon.†
p. 322.4
- This is how he thinks of it: something he's done, to Susie, to her inert and innocent flesh.†
p. 350.6
- My body is numb, inert, without sensation.†
p. 366.3
- My body is inert, without will.†
p. 408.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(inert) unmoving, inactive, or unable to move
or:
slow, lethargic, or without interest
or (in chemistry/medicine):
chemically inactive (not having an effect) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)