now that i had some experience of what i decided to call intuitingmuch like deep-sea diving , confined in a bulky suit , unsure of what i was likely to encounter in the murky depths and moving only with great difficulty against the pressure of the resisting wateri tried to tease apart these impressions , constantly warning myself not to define them too closely and get trapped into some logical cul-de-sac from which i would later have to extricate myself .