Hoopes is suffering from amnesia after a devastating illness: "trapped in a perpetual present", he's unable to form new memories but is haunted by an image from childhood of a girl's body floating in a lake.
Schweitzer's jungle hospital, the perpetual challenges of treating so many frightening illnesses, the contradictions and complementarities of this complex man, and his pithy wisdom, were all fascinating and I was ready (at age eight) to travel immediately to Gabon.
Sometimes, a seemingly perpetual negative manner indicates depression or another mental illness.
But after the hats came the tiredness, the deep perpetual weighed-down-by-20-shopping bags weariness of terminal illness.
The high death rate was the result of the appalling conditions that workers slaved under, including perpetual near starvation, merciless beatings, ruthless hours, and the many tropical illnesses.
The waiting list of patients wishing to see her was perpetual and extensive, even to her final days, and she maintained an active practice until illness forced her to suspend it in the Spring of 2006.
The impact, however, has been significant, and the numbers do not include the various nags, tweaks, illnesses and other ailments that have kept the Yankees' lineup card in perpetual flux.
In the course of this volume Ms. Savigneau paints a one-dimensional portrait of Carson McCullers as a perpetual adolescent -- a girl-woman unable or unwilling to grow up; a prematurely aged child whose illnesses made her increasingly dependent on her domineering mother.
But as the apprentice investigates his subject's deeply pessimistic state — Strauch has destroyed all his paintings, which are "a perpetual reminder of my worthlessness," and is fixated on suicide — he comes to "feel the contagion of his logically galloping illness".
