Burgess can convincingly describe ways in which images might come to a kind of colloidal suspension in the expectant poet's mind.
From the time.com
The dots are synthesised in a paint-like colloidal suspension which is then coated on to silicon wafers before they are cut up into chips.
From the economist.com
A nanofluid, which means a colloidal suspension of e.g. metal nanoparticles in water, passes easily through commonly used macroporous polymeric membranes.
From the sciencedaily.com
This clay suspension was most probably collected in situ from specially located illitic clay beds that produced spontaneous colloidal dispersion in rain water.