One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Bio: Erich Wasmann was an Austrian entomologist, specializing in ants and termites, and Jesuit priest. He described the phenomenon known as Wasmannian mimicry.
