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I can only describe this book by: The manifestation of suffocation and boredom

It was a splendid mind. For if thought is like the keyboard of a piano, divided into so many notes, or like the alphabet is ranged in twenty-six letters all in order, then his splendid mind had no sort of difficulty in running over those letters one by one, firmly and accurately, until it had reached, say, the letter Q. He reached Q. Very few people in the whole of England ever reach Q

to such people even in earliest childhood any turn in the
wheel of sensation has the power to crystallize and transfix the moment
upon which its gloom or radiance rests,