In the doorway Stevie, calmed, seemed sunk inhebetude.

One of his canons, you know, was that "the indulgence which prevents a greater pleasure, or produces a greater pain, is to be avoided." Your love of repose will lead, in its progress, to a suspension of healthy exercise, a relaxation of mind, an indifference to everything around you, and finally to a debility of body, andhebetude of mind, the farthest of all things from the happiness which the well-regulated indulgences of Epicurus ensure; fortitude, you know, is one of his four cardinal virtues.

Or quand Siltana, par amour pour Klodonis, lui donne du sel a gouter et que ce dernier sort de sonhebetude, la premiere reaction de ce mort redevenu vivant est de donner une gifle epouvantablement forte a sa liberatrice : <<Li koupe Siltana youn patasouel krazebrizedemantibileblayivide>> (FRANKETIENNE, 1975: 295) (Il lui flanqua une gifle-a ecraser-briser-detruire-jeter par terre-a couper le souffle).