Yet presently, when I left this party to go home, it only needed a chance collision between the taxi which I should take and another car for my body to be destroyed, thus forcing my mind, from which life would instantly ebb away, forever to abandon the new ideas which at this moment, not yet having had time to place them within the safety of a book, it anxiously embraced with the fragile protection of its own pulpy and quivering substance

-Time Regained