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THE thing had happened so fast--with such a fierce unexpectedness-- that it was practically over before Shattuck could realize what had happened. He was in a stifling blackness. He'd been tripped and thrown. He was down on his back in a twisted heap and on top of him there was a crushing, writhing weight.
He had a moment of clairvoyance such as the dying are said to have--or such as the newborn have, according to some doctors of the East: Why babies use their first breath for a cry of pain.