He found in the narcotic night world a kind of modern counterpart to the gothic castle - a zone of peril to be symbolically or existentially crossed. (Nancy Peters)

He found in the narcotic night world a kind of modern counterpart to the gothic castle - a zone of peril to be symbolically or existentially crossed.

Nancy Peters

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