Striking & Powerful Quote: "Whole countries might have fallen to pieces as I wandered, oblivious, from one day to the next"( p49).
Word-Image: "Completely flat. Colorless. Devoid of energy, as if I was looking at a photograph that had faded in the sun. It was as if the vibrancy of the past had leached all the life from the present " (p47).
Sound-Image: "The wind whipped the tail of the little boy's kite; a sound like a death rattle" (p51).
Haiku: Sharp pieces invade Stabbing solid emptiness Leak out thrill and haze
"Whole countries might have fallen to pieces as I wandered, oblivious, from one day to the next"( p49).
Word-Image:
"Completely flat. Colorless. Devoid of energy, as if I was looking at a photograph that had faded in the sun. It was as if the vibrancy of the past had leached all the life from the present " (p47).
Sound-Image:
"The wind whipped the tail of the little boy's kite; a sound like a death rattle" (p51).
Haiku:
Sharp pieces invade
Stabbing solid emptiness
Leak out thrill and haze