From this moment on, the hero's fate is sealed; an attempt to reestablish himself in human society, though initially successful, inevitably fails. The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant, who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him: […]

Wow! Thank you very much, Darkman. And I thought I was slick for posing as my Dad to get into Medscape, LOL. Your idea about the automatic info-dropping is excellent. Might be a leetle distracting for an Adderalled guy, but I'll try it.

It can scarcely be conceived, that any sensible men should seriously advance such odd fancies, or that they mean any thing more by them than rhetorication and flourish.

You've got to work hard to be considered the most miserable part of Russia, which makes Murmansk the most Stakhanovite city in Russia.