so instantly calls up Wagner, played loudly on Huey loudspeakers?
(all that's missing is the napalm ... so far.)

OTOH, I know a guy who lost a leg on the Sunday Morning Ride\ufffd (local bikers gathering.)
Apparently, the shock disconnects the coptic (in the religious) fibre network to the pain modem, for a time. Maybe like, when you turn on AM radio and people are jabbering insults, and at some point the brain treats this like the usual white-noise background - and you don't hear it anymore?

(But I'll bet the Big OUCHIE arrived before the morphine... :-/