Sublime

a Coming of Age story, or Bildungsroman, or maybe a Rags to Riches story—but

had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.

‘I think I’ve changed during these weeks away from the lab,’ I said. ‘I couldn’t see how to do it at first, but tonight, while I was wandering around the city, it came to me. The foolish thing was trying to solve the problem all by myself. But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems

Maynard Keynes, and Mr H. G. Wells,

the paradox of these childhood solutions was that they enabled the child to survive, but with the unconscious project and hope of finding an environment in which development could start up again. A life could be lived, that is to say, in suspended animation.

It was as though Jim had been sliced wide open from top to bottom, and from this flowed his tears and his love and his guilt. Flowed.

How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn’t know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?

dipsomaniacal tragedian progressively crippled by obsessions with death

All that kept him going was a wish that was more mechanical than emotional. He wished to be reunited with Bee, his mate, with Chrono, his son, and with Stony Stevenson, his best and only friend.