...His Minions: Thoughts of a TWILIGHT ZONE Reuieuier "The time has been," Macbeth reminisces in Act V, "my senses would have cool'd to hear a night-shriek,...would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in it." Read a few too many dismal treatises, however, and you may find, along with Macbeth, that:...

...Desillusionierung nicht angeboren, sondern das Ergebnis eines Verhärtungsprozesses ist (vgl. Mehl 156): I have almost forgot the taste of fears./ The time...dismal treatise rouse, and stir,/ As life were in't. [...] Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,/ Cannot once start me (V. v. 9-15). So wenig,...