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This simply means that a person relaxes his/her thoughts or stops overthinking.
"Snails pace" is used to strengthen the visual of how the person slows his thoughts. This is an exaggeration to help other people understand the pace of the person's thoughts.
Can you give me the paragraph?? it will help me more but, you can infer
about the details i think i hope that helps though
William likes to drink liquor from a jug
