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“Sometimes he felt paralyzed, his whole body contracting with self-doubt. Whenever he sat down to work, he found himself flummoxed in the face of materials.”

Sometimes a book finds you at just the right time

“Now the "Goddess of Fantasy" has already spun her golden warp and begun to fashion before his eyes patterns of a fantastic, marvellous life - and who knows, perhaps with her whimsical hand she has transported him to the seventh crystal heaven from the excellent granite sidewalk on which he was walking home.”

“my heart was zinging and slamming itself around like a bee under a glass”

“spidery distortions”

“goofy clarity of gaze”

Rainwhipped. Plinked. Daffy. Pharms.

“Like the odd, graceful preliminary to a dance step”

“Miasma of shame”

“Rapidly shrinking insides”

“Film-flam”

“by leaps and fathoms”

“a fresh shudder of nausea”

“ruddy, unfamiliar free flow of mind”

“Superstitious faultlines”

“pore and luster”

“lost in the throng”

“starry with unfamiliarity”