It seemed natural; natural to the moment’s peculiar reality that was sharply clear, but cut off from everything, immediate, but disconnected, like a bright island in a wall of fog, the heightened, unquestioning reality one feels when one is drunk.

Ayn Rand
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Gradually, the chatter of the crowd faded, and all I could hear was the alarming sound of my own heartbeat. Everything around me, while vivid and clear, was also strangely distant. I felt as if I were perched on the edge of an abyss, peering over a chasm, this being my life. I was locked in on myself alone. Something inside me seemed to be screaming, "This can't be happening!"

Source: Atlas Shrugged

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