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There, as Frank told the story, she “lays out worksheets, points to one example, then another, then a third. She stands back, with eyes tranced behind her rimless glasses.”

The scenes are ordinary enough — intersections in East London with people going about their normal business — but there’s a tranced stillness about them: a feeling of being in some kind of fugue state.

The effect is a kind of disoriented stasis, a tranced attentiveness so complete that the possibility of movement — of being elsewhere — is entirely absent.

Your ladyship's palace resembles the home of the tranced Beauty.

I felt my spirit sink or swell With patriot rage or lowly fear, As battle-trump, or convent-bell, Rung in my tranced ear.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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