fear grew to terror , to erupt as fury : there was nowhere to run , so he ran nowhere ; there was no one to fight , so he fought no one ; but here , all around him , was anne wilson by proxy , and so he seized the edge of the heavy glass sheet that served as her desk top and which supported all of her supplies , her telephone , her flowers , her computer , her knick-knacks , and in one violent eruption , heaved to destroy .