Sublime

he had the eyes of an early-waking farmer.

The wind, the wind made people crazy.

motallaric

Eliot had only one pair of shoes, black ones. They had a crackle finish as a result of an experiment. Eliot once tried to polish them with Johnson's Glo-Coat, which was a floorwax, not intended for shoes. One shoe was on his desk. The other was in the lavatory, on the rim of the washbasin. A maroon nylon sock, with garter attached, was in each shoe

Every notch scratched in the kitchen door frame marked the growing up of someone now long dead.

insensate

zelkova tree

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words.