“spills of mire I swallowed inside the tower”
“My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose.”
“The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.”
“As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.”
“The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me.”
“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”