Snowy reading

One of my favorite books to read when it snows: The Centaur, by John Updike (because of the big snowstorm at the end).

"This discovery is ever surprising, that Heaven can so prettily condescend. Snow puts us with Jupiter Pluvius among the clouds. What a crowd! What a crowd of tiny flakes sputters downward in the sallow realm of the light above the entrance door! Atoms and atoms and atoms and atoms. A furry inch already carpets the steps."

"The storm walks. The storm walks but does not mo...
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Published on December 20, 2009 01:10
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