Smoke is restricted here—Enriched by Torpedo, the divine orders
Of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors—Five-subunit knots used to hold
Encasing the incendiary device; smothered on the Stone Gallery (1940)—The dome,
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945—Wakefulness in a tiny room; demolitions ordered
The Great Fire (c.1947), whose Imperial Naval Academy is distorted by a painter’s tools,
Her doomed British naval officer; the ripe peach then oakmoss dry down, a psalm
For synapse, or conjunction, where the groups of people bar the way, la luna calante orders
The temperate earthstar to fire its spores—Excitatory and inhibitory spurs on hand-tooled
Jaguars to camera traps—We covet their terminals; incisive ducts beyond the palate holding
Aurea; at risk of becoming an appendage of public works, neural infiltrate of the psalmist
Suffer this tendency most; retraced down to the final fleshly inch—Texts at our marching orders
528 steps to the Golden Gallery, Casanova held the Bucintoro (1763)—Monstrances of pleasure domes,
Of a memoirist, Casanova died the year (1789) the last ship was stripped of its gilt; no longer holding
Clamped by opiates—Caffeine and nicotine electrify the flocking domes taking our palms’ lead
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We had a Code in the elevator from the cath lab, which required transcutaneous pacing...He went down in a second degree block, which is prone to devolving into a third degree block with atrial and ventricular dissociation of the upper and lower chambers. His rhythm was asystole without evidence of an escape rhythm. He came back. Food for thought about external pacer leads.* Not my patient but thanks to being nearby, disaster averted.
"Perfusing rhythm is maintained by a junctional or ventricular escape rhythm. Alternatively, the patient may suffer ventricular standstill leading to syncope (if self-terminating) or sudden cardiac death (if prolonged)."
https://litfl.com/av-block-3rd-degree-complete-heart-block/
*Requires a permanent pacemaker
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/6390/jewish/Chapter-90.htm
If I recall, the reference to the Torpedo originated in the third Balzac novel I read in translation, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes as A Harlot High and Low (1838–1847). Esther is a Jewess and prostitute who is in love with a poet, Lucien, who loves her deeply, but she is unthinkable in his life of social climbing. Despite the bad things she does, she refuses to convert to Catholicism which is prompted by a villain Abbe Herrera/Vautrin (a conman leading Lucien). After a series of misadventures including the potential union with a miser, Baron von Nucingen, Esther secures the financial security to become respectable for her love, she fails. She commits suicide. It is revealed after her death that she was the heir apparent to a massive fortune.
The first novel I read was Lost Illusions (1837-1843), then: The Black Sheep (1842), Eugénie Grandet (1833), La Peau de chagrin (1831), La Cousine Bette (1846)...all because I read a Roland Barthes essay on Séraphîta (1834).
I have Ursule Mirouët (1841) in my to-read shelf alongside Leon Uris's Exodus (1958), which was hailed by the socialist and agnostic David Ben-Gurion as "propaganda".
Ursule is about the measures to obtain wealth and to get married with scheming relatives each trying to enrich themselves and launch their children, and so on and so on through the generations.
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