The Whirlpool (1986)
“The very magnitude of it had seized his imagination.
Growing up in the cramped quarters of his father’s simple lodgings, he was unused to architectural structures whose corners, windows, staircases, and basements could not be taken in in a single phrase of thought. His uncle’s house, to him, was a series of paragraphs, each one containing a subject entirely separate from the last.
The driveshed, although it functioned as one of the main entrances to the house, was a dark and disconnected world ...where the giant wheels of wagons were barely discernible in the gloom. The place reeked of damp; of black soil and mildewed burlap. It was the location of iron and leather and tin, harnesses, discarded washtubs, broken ploughs. It was where all cutting instruments were stored, teeth and blades, jagged edges of saws, soft shine of a sharpened axe. The boards, which extended around the shed’s perimeter, and which were used for walking purposes, were worn smooth by generations of men’s boots.MoreLess
Growing up in the cramped quarters of his father’s simple lodgings, he was unused to architectural structures whose corners, windows, staircases, and basements could not be taken in in a single phrase of thought. His uncle’s house, to him, was a series of paragraphs, each one containing a subject entirely separate from the last.
The driveshed, although it functioned as one of the main entrances to the house, was a dark and disconnected world ...where the giant wheels of wagons were barely discernible in the gloom. The place reeked of damp; of black soil and mildewed burlap. It was the location of iron and leather and tin, harnesses, discarded washtubs, broken ploughs. It was where all cutting instruments were stored, teeth and blades, jagged edges of saws, soft shine of a sharpened axe. The boards, which extended around the shed’s perimeter, and which were used for walking purposes, were worn smooth by generations of men’s boots.MoreLess
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