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This second vision is stronger. It is more potent. It is a full fire in him and the hat he makes is better than any hat he had even imagined theretofore. He takes armfuls of . . . pieces . . . home with him and he works to an inspired and sharp-edged design.

It is as if he is cutting the topmost layer from reality as he works, revealing something stranger that lies beneath. The hat that he finishes does not seem quite made of the stuff he built it from; it is more lustrous, warmer, both more splendid and further wrong.

 

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