QUOTE : You’re right. Sublimating is exactly what I’m doing,” he snapped, more harshly than he’d intended. “The sick and suffering of ancient Greece used to go to the shrines of Asclepius, He Who Soothes, and offer themselves to his snakes for healing. The snakes knew the secrets of the Underworld. They could cure sickness by bringing men right up to the border between life and death, between god and mortal. That’s what ‘sublime’ means, Ruth—to come ‘up to the threshold’ between worlds. There’s nothing wrong with trying to do that. I’ve been broken apart, and that’s the only way I know how to heal.