Again

What an amazing coincidence!  Or correspondence: it suggested that all nightmares, even the most absurd, were somehow connected to reality.  He had another memory to recount, different in nature, although related.  When they took the stitches out of his face, he was vividly aware of each thread coming loose.  And in his addled, semi-conscious state, he felt as if they were removing all the threads that had controlled the puppets of his feelings, or the expressions that manifested them, which came to the same thing.

- César Aira