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A tall, lanky teenager sits in his room alone, hunched over in darkness, a darkness new to him, a darkness isolating him more than he has ever been isolated before. Slowly, he feels for the keys on a portable typewriter and presses one, then another.
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Johnson, G.M. (2015). “Misty-schism”: The Psychological Roots of Aldous Huxley’s Mystical Modernism. In: Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137332035_8
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