...ache was, he told himself that it was just. It was a well deserved "mental flagellation" (meaning an excoriation of disturbing dreams for the sins of ... ...for caring about the shallow smackings of the mother instead of the mental flagellations that she rendered unto Him. Despite the bruises and black eye... ...ence and decadent contemplation and had seemed myriad as the shore's self- flagellation of waves--would be so evanescent? As his nose was beginning to... ...ocally. Guilt, like the wind that he was now listening to, wailed on. Self flagellation like thunder and lightning piercing the room, did so under the...