Hello,
The context says: it costs sweat,
it costs nerve-fat, it costs phosphorus to do anything worth doing.
What does "it costs nerve-fat" mean? use a lot of brain??
2)
The time at which any new thought struck him was his Sibylline moment, but the act of composition usually was attended with a dull, disagreeable sensation about the forehead - interrupted only from time to time by the simultaneous descent of some group of words or unexpected image, which produced a burst of the most insane enthusiasm and self-gratulation and during which he sometimes comimitted puerile excesses of language and action.
wo-wo-wo, anyone can help explain the above too-long-and-too-complicated-sentence in easy English for me???
tks, beeja