Sublime
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his skin, too, was dark, and his eyes seemed purple or brown, very softly coloured behind his glasses.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
How’s tricks in the sticks,
Harold Pinter • The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
prevaricating.
Kazuo Ishiguro • Klara and the Sun: 'A masterpiece.' Sunday Times
Back in Brooklyn, a poet-nurse to the Union dying writes: A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Jørgen never reads these words.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The governor of South Carolina, Pinch Wheyface:
Percival Everett • The Trees
Perhaps there’ll be a disaster, Carleton had said; and Thomas felt again the blow of the hooded creature fleeing Bethesda with paint on its hands. But that had been no disaster, only something strange and soon forgotten in the order and quiet of his home – so Thomas, who had a gift for self-persuasion, placidly ate a radish.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Silk (I mean the real Silk)