A veiled
sunlight lit up faintly the grey sheet of water where the river was embayed. In
the distance along the course of the slow-flowing Liffey slender masts flecked
the sky and, more distant still, the dim fabric of the city lay prone in haze.
Like a scene on some vague arras, old as man's weariness, the image of the
seventh city of christendom was visible to him across the timeless air, no older
nor more weary nor less patient of subjection than in the days of the
thingmote.
FDV: "In words a bit duskish he aptly described the scene, the monolith rising stark from the twilight pinebarren, the bellwether
the fallow doe belling softly her approach and how brightly outed his
wallet and gives him a topping cheroot and says he was to suck that one
and spend a half hour in Havana."
4DV: "In words a bit duskish he aptly described the scene, the monolith rising
stark from the twilit pinebarren, the fallow doe belling softly her
approach and how brightly he outed his wallet and gives him a topping
cheroot and says he was to suck that one and spend a half hour in
Havana."
I suspect "while daisy winks at her pinker sister among the tussocks" refers to women's nether regions
ReplyDelete...and while we're on that track, I don't see how the horse can mock the passengers, except by waving its ass in their faces?
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