Sublime can be something that will happen so fast when someone tries to remember what occurred, they cannot. In The Fantastic Sublime, Weiskel describes the structure of the sublime as divided into three stages. The first phase is that the mind is determinate, habitual relationship with the contemplated object. The second phase is experienced by the tearing of a veil between this world and another field of experience altogether, one both more immediate and more intense. Sublime to me is wandering into a land of something else.
People think more about what they want to happen that what is going to happen.
I feel that Boris was probably in such deep thought about something that would probably not happen. Boris had probably wandered into a land of something else. Hyperbole is probably what he had experienced, and Longinus included hyperbole is a way of experessing the sublime. I felt that it was easier to pick out the sublime elements rather than the magical elements. Many sublime elements made up this story.