Serendipitious V. annotation/allusion found

[Mark Kohut]

"On that day all the inanimate things over which he had tried to obtain
control took the field against him. When he touched something, it spilled or
rolled to the floor" .....[more sentences showing the ganging up]...until

"He fled to the street, but there chaos was multiple. Broken groups of people 
hurried
past....[more].....until

.with....'the harsh clanging sound of street cars and the raw shouts of 
hucksters. No repeated
groups of words would fit their rhythm and no scale could give them meaning."