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Friedrich experiences a frothy sensation. Although his teachers at Pforta seem to consider him merely competent, industrious, and conscientious among other industrious and conscientious students, he knows every evening in addition to his regular studies he composes poems, keeps a notebook, and performs experiments in the autobiographical essay until the blue phantoms begin to lap behind his eyelids and his vision smudges. These days he cannot stop thinking and feeling. Sometimes he sleeps only four or five hours a night. Pages and pages of ideas unspool from his forehead like Rapunzel's hair from her tower. (90-91)

Olsen, Lance. Nietzsche's Kisses. Normal: FC2, 2006.