"Do you know what it is to succumb to an insurmountable day marea whoresome lethargyan indisposition to do anythinga total deadness and distastea suspension of vitalityan indifference to localitya numb soporifical goodfornothingnessan ossification all overan oyster-like insensibility to the passing eventsa mind stupora brawny defiance to the needles of a thrusting-in conscience?"
Charles Lamb groaned forth that question in the 19th century, but anybody in any epoch ought to be able to answer it with a simple yes. Anybody, that is, who has ever had a cold.
Even people who have never had a cold, if any there be, are pretty likely to...
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