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Those in the grip of a strong drug—heroin, devil grass, true love—often find themselves trying to maintain a precarious balance between secrecy and ecstasy as they walk the tightrope of their lives.
— Stephen King ‧ Wizard and Glass The Dark Tower Series, Number IV
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An editorial interpretation.
The passage groups intense love with powerful drugs and imagines their grip as a tightrope. Its central tension is between secrecy and ecstasy: wanting the overwhelming experience while trying to conceal it. The metaphor presents that divided life as exciting, unstable and difficult to balance.
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