Nicholas (“Nick”) Jenkins,
narrator of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time, 
in A Buyer’s Market:

Narrow streaks of blue were already beginning to appear across the flat surface of a livid sky.  The dawn had a kind of heaviness, perhaps of thundery weather in the offing. . . . Early morning bears with it a sense of pressure, a kind of threat of what the day will bring forth.  I felt unsettled and dissatisfied, though not in the least drunk.  On the contrary, my brain seemed to be working all at once with quite unusual clarity.  Indeed, I found myself almost deciding to sit down, as soon as I reached my room, and attempt to compose a series of essays on human life and character in the manner of, say, Montaigne, so icily etched in my mind at that moment appeared the actions and nature of those with whom that night I had been spending my time.  However, second thoughts convinced me that any such efforts at composition would be inadvisable at such an hour.  The first thing to do on reaching home would be to try and achieve some sleep.  In the morning, literary matters might be reconsidered.

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Portions of A Topical Guide to the Complete Peter Leroy (so far) were first published by Voyager, Inc., as part of The Complete Peter Leroy (so far).

The illustration at the top of the page is an adaptation of an illustration by Stewart Rouse that first appeared on the cover of the August 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions. The boy at the controls of the aerocycle doesn’t particularly resemble Peter Leroy—except, perhaps, for the smile.