At the fairgrounds we saw them in the parking lot inhaling the effluvium of carnival, the smells of fried dough, caramel and cinnamon, the flap-flapping of tents, a carousel plinking out music-box son...
Prismatic
They say, Disgrace is not to fall but to lie. They
O take me, take me up into the ranks so that I do not die a common death! I do not want to die in vain, what I want is to fall on the sacrificial mound.
It is cut, polished; for a breath, it passes between the hands of men
Is it right, Jutta says, to do something only because everyone else is doing it? Doubts: slipping in like eels.
Benediction. Below the window, on one of the bastioned
What you could be.
The universe is full of fuel.
A una chica la han echado hoy de la piscina. A inge Hachmann. Nos han dicho que no podemos nadar con mestizas, que es poco higiénico. Una mestiza, Werner. ¿No somos nosotro stamibén mestizos? ¿La mita...
— Setenta e seis anos de idade — murmura ela — e ainda consigo me sentir assim? Como uma garotinha com os olhos brilhando?
Single candle. He slides the jack under
We are dust only after all our water evaporates.
Then she thinks: There could be food in those packs.
Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.
Sie denkt: Sie sagen einfach nur Worte und was sind Worte anderes als Geräusche, die diese Männer aus Atem formen, gewichtslose Dämpfe, die sie in die Küchenluft schicken, wo sie sich auflösen und ste...
Nine are killed instantly. One of them still clutching the hand of bridge he was playing when the shell struck.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Everyone
Home of mice and damp and the stink of stranded shellfish, as if a huge tide swept in decades ago and took its time draining away. Marie-Laure hesitates over the open door, smelling the fires from out...
Из затянутых паутиной дней в воскресной школе звучат ветхозаветные слова: «У саранчи нет царя, но выступает вся она стройно».