The Wild PalmsChatto & Windus, 1954 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina 231
... pirogue tied to the foot of a crude ladder , a man standing in the open door holding a lantern ( it was that dark now ) above his head , gobbling down at them . He told it — of the next eight or nine or ten days , he did not remember ...
... pirogue tied to the foot of a crude ladder , a man standing in the open door holding a lantern ( it was that dark now ) above his head , gobbling down at them . He told it — of the next eight or nine or ten days , he did not remember ...
Pàgina 238
... pirogue again , the convict squatting again with that unbreathing rigidity as though he were trying by holding his breath to decrease his very weight , the bloody skin in the bows before him and he looking at it , thinking , And I can't ...
... pirogue again , the convict squatting again with that unbreathing rigidity as though he were trying by holding his breath to decrease his very weight , the bloody skin in the bows before him and he looking at it , thinking , And I can't ...
Pàgina 247
... pirogue emerging anywhere to fall in behind him , but he had not expected this anyway , he knew that the others I would have departed too ; it was not this , it was his very solitude , his desolation which was now his alone and in full ...
... pirogue emerging anywhere to fall in behind him , but he had not expected this anyway , he knew that the others I would have departed too ; it was not this , it was his very solitude , his desolation which was now his alone and in full ...
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ain't already began believe beneath beside black wind blinked boat breath Buckner Cajan carrying cashier's cheque ceased Charlotte cigarette coat cold cottonfield cried damned dark deputy doctor dollars door drink eyes face feet flat glare going gunwales hand hard Harry head hear heard hell hold instant knew levee light Listen live looked McCord move never niggers night nurse officer oleander once Orleans outrage paddle palm pantomime pilot house pirogue pistol plump convict quietly realised remembered returned Rittenmeyer seemed sitting skiff sleep smell snow sorghum sound squatted stared steadily steamboat stood stopped stove talk tall convict tell thinking thought told took train trees truck trying turned vanished Vicksburg violently voice wait waked walk Warden watched whisky wife Wilbourne wild Wild Palms wind window woman