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And now, once again, the dusk was falling into place, and in the valley below the lights were beginning to come on in the town. -TW

And then with brightbandvsharp intensity, the dream changed, and suddenly he found himself among the scenes and faces he had known long ago. He was a traveler who had returned after many years of wondering to the place he had known in his childhood. -TW

Page 39 - "All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again., the tres whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth... -TW

It was not his quality as a romantic to escape out of life, but into it. He wanted no land of Make-believe: his fantasies found extensions in reality...- TW

It was October and the leaves were quaking. Dusk was beginning. The sun had gone, the western ranges faded in the chill purple mist, but the western sky still burned with ragged bands of orange. It was October. -TW

But the only sound that was real, that was near and present, was the sound in his heart, in his brain, of the everlasting sea.-TW

...when I awoke, the stars were shining down on my face. -A C

How could I have known about it, since, apart from our two bodies, separated now, there was no link between us..-A C

So, really, all my nights were spent waiting for the dawn. A C

Spring lay strewn lightly like a fragrant gauzy scarf upon the earth; the night was a cool bowl of lilac darkness, filled with fresh orchard scents. -TW

and he wondered of he would ever see that river. All that lay around him, near but unexplored, filled him with desire and longing. -TW

...they had been discussing my "soul," and the rest of it, I found that my mind had gone blurred; everything was dissolving into a grayish, watery haze. - A C