31.   He was in that netherworld that athletes sometimes visit, that sweet spot in time where everything is clear and nothing can break the spell.

32.   I sat on a boulder, waiting, so lost in something other than thought that the sound of my companions approaching startled me and broke the spell.

33.   I took no notes, I barely breathed, afraid to break the spell.

34.   If they find such a Shangri-La, the discovery of a single discarded Snickers bar wrapper is often enough to break the spell.

35.   It breaks the spell.

36.   Interrupting would have broken the spell for him.

37.   It took Jason and his Argonauts to break the spell and open the Bosporus to navigation.

38.   It was Barbara A., the sickest among them, who broke the spell, offering a tentative definition of when enough might be enough.

39.   Nothing short of a basketball game could break the spell.

40.   Only the gnawing hunger, she said, was able to break a spell that gripped her toward the end of her freshman year.