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"The sound of her anger was condensed, like acid, perhaps due to the alembic of the pump case around them. It functioned like an acoustic concave mirror, increased and concentrated the tone. She had a melodious voice. Enhanced in the Zahle School girls' chorus. Conducted by Hess-Theissen. But at the same time it could be a whiplash. He had seen her quick-freeze an entire super-elliptical conference table of chief engineers."
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.
I first saw this in an RW Emerson metaphor. "Thus is Art a nature passed through the alembic of man."