Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The slippery brilliance of fish.

Along this promenade walk many Moslem men, mostly youths, some Moslem women, who usually come to sit in black clutches of three or four in the grass under the fruit trees, and many gypsies, men, women and children, who pass through the more stolid Moslem crowds with the slippery brilliance of fish.

REBECCA WEST. BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON.





I am glad I am not rushing this book. It's been two months and I've restrained myself so that several hundred pages still stretch out ahead of me.

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