The Wild PalmsChatto & Windus, 1954 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina 127
... instant of virginity , it was the instant of virginity : that condition , fact , that does not actually exist except during the instant you know you are losing it ; it lasted as long as it did because I was too old , I waited too long ...
... instant of virginity , it was the instant of virginity : that condition , fact , that does not actually exist except during the instant you know you are losing it ; it lasted as long as it did because I was too old , I waited too long ...
Pàgina 214
... instant before had been mere earth broke up into motionless coils and loops , branches which a moment before had been mere branches now become immobile ophidian festoons even as the convict stood thinking about food , about something ...
... instant before had been mere earth broke up into motionless coils and loops , branches which a moment before had been mere branches now become immobile ophidian festoons even as the convict stood thinking about food , about something ...
Pàgina 237
... instant longer until the bow of the pirogue grounded lighter than the falling of a leaf and stepped out of it and paused just for one instant while the words It does look big stood for just a second , unem- phatic and trivial ...
... instant longer until the bow of the pirogue grounded lighter than the falling of a leaf and stepped out of it and paused just for one instant while the words It does look big stood for just a second , unem- phatic and trivial ...
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66 All right ain't already began believe beneath black wind blinked boat breath Buckner Cajan cashier's cheque ceased Charlotte cigarette coat cold 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 preter 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