'It was a most fitting try for a most trying time.'
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'At the moment I arrived there, it was already abracadabra time'
'Having broken a pencil off, someone poked me in the eye. It was as if a painful bright light had become my newest companion. 'No surcease to sorrow' I heard someone say.'
'Until that day, I'd manifested a thousand different things in a hundred different directions.'
'Once I was a steady-fisted Mister Mash, so sure of myself as to stand alone anywhere.'
'Now playing : Happenstance, Circumstance, Misalliance & Subterfuge.'
'Just like some harried old man in a den of thieves.'
'A shadow waxed over the scene. I felt sure I was looking at the mix of light and solid for the very first time. Yet, the feeling was oddly familiar, and made me unsure of what I was viewing.'
'A live rooster, in a cage too small for this life.'
'Chinese pagodas, housetops of death, perimeters of nothingness, Japanese warriors all in a row...'
'We were talking about the ways in which Mankind lies to itself. I hadn't a moment to interject.'
'While I may have understood your intention, everything beyond that was a blur to me : I heard words, but discerned no meaning.'
'Your old picture had stayed in my mind a long time - I remembered being there but, in a sense, I remembered the opposite of all that too. I had never really moved an inch.'
'I composed on my mind a continuous line of some descending force which would define all things.'
'My comrades-in-arms were up about something. Everyone grimaced, just for the moment (though it seemed like forever).'