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   Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   AK> From the story about dr Jekyll & Hyde:   
   AK>   
   AK> ...I was in the mere stupidity of wonder, before terror   
   AK> woke up in my breast as sudden and startling as the   
   AK> crash of cymbals, and bounding from my bed, I rushed to   
   AK> the mirror.   
   AK>   
   AK> Why "the crash" not "a crash"?   
      
   Stevenson compares Jekyll's (I think) shock to that produced   
   by a sudden, sharp, and loud sound.  And cymbals, struck   
   together with great force, make exactly such kind of sound.   
   He is referring not to *a* specific instance of crashing-   
   together of *a* specific pair of cymbals (there was none!),   
   but to a general quality of that action as a rerefence.   
      
   P.S.: I don't know why people read J&H as their first (and   
         often last) work by Stevenson, who is a great master   
         of the short story.   
      
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