There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of ne…

Don DeLillo
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There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind. ✨ Don DeLillo (2016). Ratner's Star, p.92, Pan Macmillan
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There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind. ✨ Don DeLillo (2016). Ratner's Star, p.92, Pan Macmillan

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