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With each individual there is a dividing line between imagination and reality; for most of us whose imaginations have distinct limits, this is fairly clearcut. In S.'s case the borderline between the two had broken down, for the images his imagination conjured up took on the feel of reality.

You know why they have music in restaurants? Because it changes the taste of everything. If you select the right kind of music, everything tastes good. Surely people who work in restaurants know this

what takes over are vague synesthetic sensations, a state in which there is no real borderline between perceptions and emotions; where images of the external world blend and become part of diffuse experiences; where sensations seem so vague and shifting it is hard to find words with which to convey them.

Not even fire could wipe out the traces he wanted to obliterate!