| Ray B. West, Jr. - 1963 - 50 pagina’s
...is not the way, I must never do that, she warned herself." As with Miranda, the reality lies only in "the dazed silence that follows the ceasing of the heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow." Yet the recurring hope ("Now there... | |
| Maureen Howard - 1977 - 390 pagina’s
...is not the way, I must never do that, she warned herself." As with Miranda, the reality lies only in "the dazed silence that follows the ceasing of the heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow." Yet the recurring hope ("Now there... | |
| Katherine Anne Porter - 1979 - 508 pagina’s
...warned herself. Miss Tanner said, "Your taxicab is waiting, my dear," and there was Mary. Ready to go. No more war, no more plague, only the dazed silence...the ceasing of the heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow. Now there would be time for everything.... | |
| Katherine Anne Porter - 1939 - 234 pagina’s
...warned herself. Miss Tanner said, "Your taxicab is waiting, my dear," and there was Mary. Ready to go. No more war, no more plague, only the dazed silence...the ceasing of the heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow. Now there would be time for everything.... | |
| Paul Scott Malone - 2001 - 364 pagina’s
...brought me both sadness and hope, from a writer I admire as much as I admire your incredible strength: 'No more war, no more plague, only the dazed silence that follows the ceasing of the heavy guns; 755 noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow. Now there... | |
| Alfred W. Crosby - 2003 - 360 pagina’s
...alone. It is also an evocation of the crushing depression that so often followed Spanish influenza. "No more war, no more plague, only the dazed silence that follows the ceasing of heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow.... | |
| Mary Titus - 2010 - 264 pagina’s
...nothing will begin or end, and nothing needs to be done. She leaves the hospital for the empty street: "No more war, no more plague, only the dazed silence...the ceasing of the heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow. Now there would be time for everything"... | |
| Margaret Rose Thornton, Tennessee Williams - 2006 - 868 pagina’s
...herself as if out of sleep. Oh, no, that is not the way, ! must never do that, she warned herself. . . . No more war, no more plague, only the dazed silence...the ceasing of the heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow. Now there would be time for everything.... | |
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