Free The Dream Life of Balso Snell by Nathanael West

a long involved ceremony. A ceremony whose ritual unwound and manoeuvred itself with the confidence and training of chemicals acting under the stimulus of a catalytic agent.
    His body screamed and shouted as it marched and uncoiled; then, with one heaving shout of triumph, it fell back quiet.
    The army that a moment before had been thundering in his body retreated slowly—victorious, relieved.
     
    THE END