Despite her failing mind, Ms. McPhee's mother found lucidity in her love, presenting her daughters with a way forward.
The Elizabethans associated madness with forests, but in Laura Beatty's first novel, "Pollard", an unhinged mind finds lucidity in the woods.Anne, a 15-year-old who "can't see the wood for the trees", abandons her awful family and moves to the forest where she clears a copse, dams a stream and builds herself a shelter.
Failing to recover lucidity, he was committed to a psychiatric hospital for over 400 days.
It is rare to find a book of such lucidity and authority that does not hector its readers.
Her father wrote a book, Short Wave Wireless Communication, which was legendary in our family for its incomprehensibility, but I have just read the first two pages and find myself delighted by its lucidity in comparison to my own.
This stretches from the fringes of the New Age movement who want to use lucid dreams to access other planes of existence (best of luck with that), to a more technologically oriented community of dream hackers who sample scientific research to try to find reliable methods for triggering lucidity.
I find his combination of historically informed lucidity, strategic ambition and personal passion hugely impressive.
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World is an anthology of interviews and speeches Lee has given over the last four decades…readers will find themselves entertained and challenged by Lee Kuan Yew's lucidity, powerful arguments and acerbic tongue.
So, while we are deeply indebted to Disraeli for the lucidity of his analysis, and can find a common cause with his dream of a Britain united, the energy to realise our one-nation vision and transform our communities from the bottom up, is all our own.
These, he said, "were the fullest years of my life, crowded with discovery both inner and outer", and the poems written then make up his most sunlit, celebratory book, Moly (1971); rock music and drug-induced euphoria find their characteristic counterbalance in the beautifully resonant lucidity of The Fair In The Woods, Grasses and Sunlight.
Recently in "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle," and now in "The Good Thief," the reader can find plain-spoken fiction full of traditional virtues: strong plotting, pure lucidity, visceral momentum and a total absence of writerly mannerisms.
