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  • That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.

    Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”