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The kick-off was the weekend in Baltimore. One interesting result is that I have a mock-cold this morning. That is, my nose is running—like allergy—and yet I do not feel the depression of a cold. It has set me thinking about the nature of colds, and the Roxitchitl{{refn|Unknown.}} or whatever the hell it is that Bob gave.{{LJ:Lindner}} I took a capsule last night, felt no effect, and so added two seconals{{LJ:Seconal}} and went to sleep. But the note on the box literature said that “nasal congestion” was | The kick-off was the weekend in Baltimore. One interesting result is that I have a mock-cold this morning. That is, my nose is running—like allergy—and yet I do not feel the depression of a cold. It has set me thinking about the nature of colds, and the Roxitchitl{{refn|Unknown.}} or whatever the hell it is that Bob gave.{{LJ:Lindner}} I took a capsule last night, felt no effect, and so added two seconals{{LJ:Seconal}} and went to sleep. But the note on the box literature said that “nasal congestion” was sometimes a side-effect. This morning I have nasal congestion. | ||
I wonder if colds are not an expression of an {{LJ:S}}-victory necessary to relieve a too-intense conflict. The depression which accompanies my colds (except for today) is the sadness and anger of the {{LJ:er}} at being defeated again. Yet the cold may well be one of the basic homeostases—when one is feeling too much “tnesion” (nesion as nerve tension) too much er, the S relieves the conflict by knocking the body out—what is essential to the cold is that the er cannot win at that given period, and so S in its victory declares a punitive peace treaty. The roxyl drug is probably an S stimulant, an {{LJ:H}} vitiator—hence in people whose nervous systems react to S increments by a cold, “nasal congestion” is the result. Whenever I get a bad cold in the future, I am going to try Lipton’s and see if it is a cure. | I wonder if colds are not an expression of an {{LJ:S}}-victory necessary to relieve a too-intense conflict. The depression which accompanies my colds (except for today) is the sadness and anger of the {{LJ:er}} at being defeated again. Yet the cold may well be one of the basic homeostases—when one is feeling too much “tnesion” (nesion as nerve tension) too much er, the S relieves the conflict by knocking the body out—what is essential to the cold is that the er cannot win at that given period, and so S in its victory declares a punitive peace treaty. The roxyl drug is probably an S stimulant, an {{LJ:H}} vitiator—hence in people whose nervous systems react to S increments by a cold, “nasal congestion” is the result. Whenever I get a bad cold in the future, I am going to try Lipton’s and see if it is a cure. | ||