"Once the quietness arrived, it stayed and spread in Estha. It reached out of his head and enfolded him in it's swampy arms. It rocked him to the rhythm of an ancient, foetal heartbeat. It sent it's stealthy, suckered tentacles along the insides of his skull, hoovering the knolls and dells of his memory, dislodging old sentences, whisking them off the tip of his tongue. It stripped his thoughts of the words that described them and left them pared and naked. Unspeakable. Numb. And to an observer therefore, perhaps barely there."
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