But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and
fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of
ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked
on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes
upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until
drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace.
For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they
were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the
rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing
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