The word we made up for the nightly unconsciousness was this: ù. That was another new word, “normal.” The idea behind that word, the idea that there were norms, yardsticks against which things could be measured, was also new. Nobody can remember the name of the genius who thought of the word which allowed us to believe that this periodic unconsciousness was normal. Then they allowed us to be reborn in the morning and we were expected to be grateful. Before that we called it the nightly death and thought the gods inflicted it on us to remind us regularly of our puny mortality.

In fact the very idea of the nightly unconsciousness was frightening, and we had only recently invented a word for it that wasn’t frightening. For example we didn’t have a word for the thing that happened in our heads during the nightly unconsciousness. OL457172W Page_number_confidence 86.64 Pages 234 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220212105751 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 587 Scandate 20220130010329 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780613495639 Tts_version 4.In those early days of the world we didn’t have words for many things we didn’t understand. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:11:26 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40340823 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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