Sebastian, who in these days of returning sanity lived in a world where fantasy, dream, and nightmare were so intermingled with actual fact that he felt himself to be perpetually disintegrating like a kaleidoscope…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sebastian is a Jew who was in a concentration camp, who lost his whole family to bombing in World War 2. \u00a0My experience has been similar, though not so extreme. I respond to whatever I’m reading as though I’m living in it right now. Most of the time I don’t feel very connected to the people I’m with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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