I made the whole thing up. In my most recent book, I described a medical condition afflicting certain surgery patients, patients referred to (after a German research paper that I also just made up) as die Wiedergänger: returners who never fully surface from anesthesia. Seemingly functional after their operations, they remain in a semi-stupor, unable to forget their journey to oblivion, how "in the course of outrunning pain, they'd traveled to the border of mortality."
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