In the final sentence of the passage, the divinity-student's "mild short cough" highlights a tension between his tormented thoughts and his subdued physical reaction.
The Divinity Student is known to be a famous book that was written by Michael Cisco.
The book is known to be very brief but powerful, as it is said to be a neo-gothic novel that was depicted by Harry O. Morris who was said to have used present tense to make the reader have a kind of hallucinatory journey from humanity to spiritual transcendence.
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