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twilight state

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twilight state
n.
A condition of disordered consciousness during which actions may be performed without conscious volition and without any remembrance afterward.

twilight state
Etymology: Ger, Zwielicht, twilight; L, status
an impaired state of consciousness in which the patient may experience visual or auditory hallucinations and responds to them with irrational behavior. The person may be unaware of the surroundings at the time of the experience and have no memory of it later, except perhaps to recall a related dream. It may be induced with certain anesthetics.


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Her sister, Lisa Robinson, of Five Points, Alabama, said: 'She's in a twilight state, as if she's screaming inside but can't move.
But as if to cast doubt on the certainties so often proclaimed following such momentous events (one thinks of those emerging from the Truth and Reconciliation hearings in postapartheid South Africa), Kentridge's production unsettles this happy ending, setting the ailing, prone figure of Ulysses in his twilight state against the optimistic external narrative, thus injecting into the story a deep and persistent theme of fatalism and flawed or uncertain retrospection.
Over the next few hours I became conscious in a twilight state and grasped the gist of what had happened to me (it's called anaphylactic shock), what was happening to me now (the unidentified, toxic allergen was continuing to attack), and what was likely to happen to me soon (I was expected to die again, this time for keeps).
 
 
 
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