“Spring Air”
“The spring air smelled so full of life that Skylar wondered whether these refulgent pin points all ashimmer related in some way to that liveliness. No wonder, he thought, that spring was the season for new love: one only had to breathe in to understand the reason. Vernal air intoxicated the soul. Young people ought not be allowed to breathe fresh air during the months of April and May. By inhaling this dangerous substance, they put themselves and society at the risk of their behaving exuberantly, irrationally, and delightfully. For spring air was heady stuff indeed. It was suffused with the potency of creativity, gave one the feeling of being an all-puissant magician able to perform tricks of unfathomable complexity, and opened the glorious jewel case of the world, making it one’s personal toy box.”