How does the syntax of the sentences, "I lie here on this great immovable bed-it is nailed down, I believe-and follow the pattern about by the hour. it is as good as gymnastics, I assure you. I know a little of the principle of the design, and I know this thing was not arranged on any laws of radiation, or alteration, or repetition, or symmytry, or anything else I heard of. it is repeated, of course, by the breadths, but not otherwise. looked at in one way each breadth stands alone, the bloated curves and flourishes-a kind of "debased Romanesque" with delirium tremens-go waddling up and down in isolated columns of fatuity. but, on the other hand, they connect diagonally, and the sprawling outlines run off in great slanting waves of optic horror, like a lot of wallowing sea-weeds in full chase." both mirror the pattern on the wallpaper and suggest the narrators agitation?
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