No living person can enter the perception of his fellow save as a body. This holds in the most spiritistic of systems. Even the bodyless dead must have a living body for a medium of their manifestation; nor can any event of heaven or hell make sense except by way of bodily reference.

When he was excited, the Yankeeisms of his youth came back to him.

[T]he success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.

I guess he was tricking with some other hustler a couple of days later and OD'd on one too many poppers—a heart attack in his sleep.