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In Hazard (New York Review Books Classics) In Hazard by Richard Hughes
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“The punctilious magistrate, presiding in his bivouac of matting, vanished without punctilio.”
Richard Hughes, In Hazard
“Think of a tree. The roots of a tree spread in a most complicated manner through the ground, extracting all kinds of necessary things. This nourishment passes, unified, up the plain column of its trunk, and bursts out in the air into a countless multitude of leaves. So all the varying forces, the stresses and resistances, proceeding from that welter of machinery, are unified into the simple rotation of this horizontal column: are conducted calmly along its length into the sea: and there burgeon suddenly into the white and glass-green foliage of the swirls, the tumbling currents, the enormously powerful jostling of crowded water which is a ship’s wake.”
Richard Hughes, In Hazard