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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?
Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.