MAGIC Words

It is so exciting to read wondrous works whose words stop you and you catch your breath. Here are more of those Magic Words from Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandrian Quartet, specifically CLEA.
CLEA
I saw, in fact, that we artists form one of those pathetic human chains which human beings form to pass buckets of water up to a fire, or to bring in a lifeboat. An uninterrupted chain of humans born to explore the inward riches of the solitary life on behalf of the unheeding, unforgiving community; manacled together by the same gift