The Virgin in the Garden (2012)
“Nursery Garden Marcus supposed that if one was properly mad one was not afraid of being mad. Mad people in films and books seemed to have in common a rock-bottom certainty that they were in the right. His own increasing anxiety about madness could perhaps be taken as a sign that he was sane. And madness in this literary household had overtones of raving, vision and poetry which were nothing to do with what was bothering him.
What was bothering him was spreading fear. More and more things aroused it: things he could no longer do, could no longer bear to see. These things were recognisable because of the little shocks that went with them, shocks of consciousness momentarily disconnected, like stepping down two steps when the body has only allowed for one. It had to do with geometry: careful measurement and sense of scale could prevent it. It had to do with an animal fear of not responding quickly. Like burning oneself, because one’s skin, or sense of smell, was not functioning as it should.
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