Book One – Chapter 3

It  wa s   

a      l    o      n         g  suffocating 

moment

  a ␥PARALYSIS 

      of the self

    suspended beyond 

the absolute margins 

    of all that mapped

        existence,

     unmoored 

from every original
            anchor

       until his sense

made sense
              of his 

             shifted state 

    and the structures 

           that surrounded it.

 He recognised 

   his ゛self 

 in the most fundamental

meaning

        .  . of the verb.