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“Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looke...”
“I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me not even if I cried out.”
“I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sou...”