The Stiff Heart Questions

In this drama the nerves sit ceremonious like tombs so they've bought into this formality. There is some killing of one's instincts and one's feelings in order to get into this state of formality. The stiff heart questions was it he that bore and yesterday or centuries before? So the heart is saying was actually me that went through that trauma was it yesterday or was it sense that what's happened the the heart's way of coping?"