After the Fine Weather (2012)
“Jumping to her feet, she kicked her chair over and started out at a stumbling run toward the section where the Diplomatic Corps was seated. Her one idea was to get close to Charles.
Then the paralysis of affront and shock snapped like an overtight string. There was a roar as the crowd surged forward, in an unreasoning reaction, a desire to move, to stamp, to grab. It was the instinct of a huge animal, wounded in one of its extremities, rolling and threshing.
The ropes that separated the standin...g crowd from the seats burst, seats went over as the audience jumped up, there was a smashing of wood, and a wave of bodies lapped up against the steps of the theatre. Above the roar of the crowd rose the steady screaming of women.
Laura missed Charles but reached the steps and found shelter behind one of the pillars. She looked down at the square. It was as though a gust of hurricane force had picked up a section of the crowd and thrown it against the steps. But in that forward surge there were already two countermovements.MoreLess
Then the paralysis of affront and shock snapped like an overtight string. There was a roar as the crowd surged forward, in an unreasoning reaction, a desire to move, to stamp, to grab. It was the instinct of a huge animal, wounded in one of its extremities, rolling and threshing.
The ropes that separated the standin...g crowd from the seats burst, seats went over as the audience jumped up, there was a smashing of wood, and a wave of bodies lapped up against the steps of the theatre. Above the roar of the crowd rose the steady screaming of women.
Laura missed Charles but reached the steps and found shelter behind one of the pillars. She looked down at the square. It was as though a gust of hurricane force had picked up a section of the crowd and thrown it against the steps. But in that forward surge there were already two countermovements.MoreLess
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