Repetition
“An axle seemed to be turning inside me, more and more slowly, bringing the things behind me into my field of vision. Beyond the northern mountains I saw a fiery cloud, which I situated exactly over the house of my parents. Heart, diamond, spade, and club shapes had been cut out of the west wall of the barn to let air in, and my father’s centuries-old desolation came blowing out of the black holes.
I left the place, backing away; and later, while walking, I kept turning back toward it. A little ...bird rose high over the edge of the plateau—as though it had just slipped from the hand of the dwarf who had hoped with its help to win the stone-throwing contest with the giant—and plummeted to the ground as though shot. The lake at the end of the valley looked like jelly in the dying light, and I fancied it full of drowning bees, circling around with transparent wings.
Each time, I went there with head bowed and came back with head erect. A tablet was affixed to one of the houses at the entrance to this village.MoreLess
I left the place, backing away; and later, while walking, I kept turning back toward it. A little ...bird rose high over the edge of the plateau—as though it had just slipped from the hand of the dwarf who had hoped with its help to win the stone-throwing contest with the giant—and plummeted to the ground as though shot. The lake at the end of the valley looked like jelly in the dying light, and I fancied it full of drowning bees, circling around with transparent wings.
Each time, I went there with head bowed and came back with head erect. A tablet was affixed to one of the houses at the entrance to this village.MoreLess
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