But the hands of bidders flickered shyly – work-roughened hands timid of parting with hard-earned cash;.
How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this – smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky?
Holly had married him: well, well. I wished I were under the wheels of the train.
You had to believe it, because it was really true.
Joe James, dark-haired, even darker-skinned than Perry, a lithe figure who with his faded huntsman’s shirt and moccasined feet looked as though he had that instant mysteriously emerged from woodland shadows, told.
At the door, Smith said to Hickock, “No chicken-hearted jurors, they!” They both laughed loudly, and a cameraman photographed them. The picture appeared in a Kansas paper above a caption entitled: “The Last Laugh?
Her smile was fragmentary, it clung to her lips like cake crumbs.
The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them.
He stood there whispering the names of the evening stars as they opened in flower above him. The stars were his pleasure, but tonight they did not comfort him: they did not make him remember that what happens to us on earth is lost in the endless shine of eternity.
And so, along paths bordered by tender regard, by total fidelity, they began to go their semiseparate ways – his a public route, a march of satisfying conquests, and hers a private one that eventually wound through hospital corridors.
Although the journalists anticipated violence, several had predicted shouted abuse. But when the crowd caught sight of the murderers, with their escort of blue-coated highway patrolmen, it fell silent, as though amazed to find them humanly shaped.
Tan grande es la ridiculez del mundo que no podemos decir o expresar nuestra ternura.
Brazil! That’s where they’re building a whole new capital city. Right from scratch. Imagine getting in on the ground floor of something like that! Any fool could make a fortune.
A year ago, when they first encountered each other, he’d thought Perry “a good guy,” if a bit “stuck on himself,” “sentimental,” too much “the dreamer.” He had liked him but not considered him especially worth cultivating until, one day, Perry described a murder, telling how, simply for “the hell of it,” he had killed a colored man in Las Vegas – beaten him to death with a bicycle chain.
No,” she said slowly. “No, the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re sad, that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don’t know what it is. You’ve had that feeling?” “Quite often. Some people call it angst.” “All right. Angst. But what do you do about it?” “Well, a drink helps.
He lost her to a quadrille of partners who gobbled up her stammered jokes like popcorn tossed to pigeons.
She was one of those people who can disguise themselves as an object in the room, a shadow in the corner, whose presence is a delicate happening.
The stifling room was musty; it smelled of old furniture and the burned out fires of wintertime...
E mai bine sa te uiti la cer decat sa traiesti acolo. Un loc atat de singuratic; atat de nelamurit. Doar un tinut unde se ivesc trasnete si unde totul dispare.
Joel gazed down on the jumbled green, trying to picture the music room and the dancers... but the willows were willows and the goldenrod goldenrod and the dancers dead and lost.