She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them and drew them into her teeth. Just a little bit, she thought, that's all I need to free my eyelids. She pulled the tasteless web between her teeth and ground, pulling her jaw down in a grimace - it felt as it she was eating the very skin off her face. But the silk over her eyelids shifted. Stephen M. Irwin
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This quote describes the feeling of a torn and dirty silk. The raw edges of the torn silk can be tasted and that is what makes it feel bad, like biting into a piece of rotten meat. The torn silk is like a web that weaves across our eyes and we need to tear it down to see again. We must pull down our eyelids and tear down the web until we can see again.

Source: The Dead Path

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