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Love, hate and fear experienced sudden intensification, or abrupt dwindling into nothing; the familiar everyday emotions, commonplace daily acts, suffered exaggerated enlargement, or reduction into insignificance, that threatened the stability of his personality. LOVE HATE AND FEAR EXPERIENCED SUDDEN INTENSIFICATION WERE ABRUPT DWINDLING INTO NOTHING THE FAMILIAR EVERYDAY EMOTIONS COMMONPLACE DAILY ACTS SUFFERED EXAGGERATED ENLARGEMENT OR REDUCTION INTO INSIGNIFICANCE THAT THREATENED THE STABILITY OF HIS PERSONALITY
nths. Photographs in magazines and newspapers explained the rest. Yet the persistence of the pictures puzzled him: tents beneath hot cloudless skies, palms, a stretch of desert, dry watercourses, camels, a mosque, a minaret—typical snatches of this kind flashed into his mind with a sense of faint familiarity often. He knew, again, the return of a fugitive memory he could not seize.... He kept a note of the dates, all of them subsequent to the day he read his brother’s fate in the official Roll of Honour: “Believed missing; now killed.” Only when the original phenomenon returned, but in its altered form, did he stop the practice. The change then affected his life too fundamentally to trouble about mere dates and pictures. For the phenomenon, shifting its field of action, abruptly became mental, and the singular change of focus took place now in his mind. Events magnified or contracted themselves out of all relation with their intrinsic values, sense of proportion went hopelessly astray. SING IN MESOPOTAMIA THESE SIX MONTHS PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS EXPLAINED THE REST YET THE PERSISTENCE OF THE PICTURES PUZZLED HIM TENTS BENEATH HOT CLOUDLESS SKIES PALMS A STRETCH OF DESERT DRY WATERCOURSES CAMELS A MOSQUE A MINARET TYPICAL SNATCHES OF THIS KIND FLASHED INTO HIS MIND WITH A SENSE OF FAINT FAMILIARITY OFTEN HE KNEW AGAIN THE RETURN OF A FUGITIVE MEMORY HE COULD NOT SEIZE HE KEPT A NOTE OF THE DATES ALL OF THEM SUBSEQUENT TO THE DAY HE READ HIS BROTHER'S FATE IN THE OFFICIAL ROLE OF HONOR BELIEVED MISSING NOW KILLED ONLY WHEN THE ORIGINAL PHENOMENON RETURNED BUT IN ITS ALTERED FORM DID HE STOP THE PRACTICE THE CHANGE THEN AFFECTED HIS LIFE TOO FUNDAMENTALLY TO TROUBLE ABOUT MERE DATES AND PICTURES FOR THE PHENOMENON SHIFTING ITS FIELD OF ACTION ABRUPTLY BECAME MENTAL AND THE SINGULAR CHANGE OF FOCUS TOOK PLACE NOW IN HIS MIND EVENTS MAGNIFIED OR CONTRACTED THEMSELVES OUT OF ALL RELATION WITH THEIR INTRINSIC VALUES SENSE OF PROPORTION WENT HOPELESSLY ASTRAY
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