And a sense both of complete ...

And a sense both of complete change and of utter reality came over me. Suddenly I felt what it was like to be inside something, and stuck there; and what is more, inside an internment camp from which one could not get out for any reason whatsoever, a camp run under the iron discipline of an enemy army. - P7

The reality in which I had now to exist seemed barely large enough to stand on, let alone large enough to be alive in. - P7