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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. But after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Source: The Insect World, in Sleep It Off, Lady, 1976.
-- Jean Rhys, (Aug 24 1894-1979), English novelist; She wrote After leaving Mr. MacKenzie, 1931 and Good Morning, Midnight, 1939.

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