Clemmie
“The shadows were blue-black. He looked up and saw the light that came from the big window. There were cars parked by the loading dock, and a man in a chauffeur hat sitting on the dock, a pink glow on his face when he drew at his cigarette.
The big metal door was unlocked. When he pushed it open he heard the music from above. It was one of her records that she had played for him last week end on her high-fidelity equipment. Strange music, a stirring, eerie thing by a man named Chavez entitled To...ccata for Percussion. She had played other music for him and had been amused and slightly contemptuous of his lack of knowledge of them. Bartok, Stravinsky, Sheldon, Stotl. Odd music, full of jagged edges and prolonged discords that seemed to set up a sympathetic resonance in his teeth. And since so much of that music had been a curiously apt background for the decadencies of their experimentations, that music, as he climbed the stairs, awakened specific memories, hollowing his belly and greasing his hands.MoreLess
The big metal door was unlocked. When he pushed it open he heard the music from above. It was one of her records that she had played for him last week end on her high-fidelity equipment. Strange music, a stirring, eerie thing by a man named Chavez entitled To...ccata for Percussion. She had played other music for him and had been amused and slightly contemptuous of his lack of knowledge of them. Bartok, Stravinsky, Sheldon, Stotl. Odd music, full of jagged edges and prolonged discords that seemed to set up a sympathetic resonance in his teeth. And since so much of that music had been a curiously apt background for the decadencies of their experimentations, that music, as he climbed the stairs, awakened specific memories, hollowing his belly and greasing his hands.MoreLess
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