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Then the meanings came-half meanings, guessed meanings, shadowy and fragmented, but solid and real in the shadow and the frag-ments. They piled into her mind, overwhelming it, clogging it, so that she only caught a part of them, as a person listening to a conversation delivered in so rapid-fire a manner that only one word in twenty could be heard. But beyond all this she grasped for a moment the larger context of it

I think I may have read this before, decades ago