Bird voices twirled over my head, intricate as skaters or running water, the air filling with liquid syllables.
Margaret Atwood, Surfacing, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1972, p. 125.
PIACE: Northern Quebec
TIME: 1972
CIRCUMSTANCE:
I pause in the middle of the room listening: no wind, stillness, held breath of the lake, the trees ... My footsteps are the only sounds, reverberation of shoes on wood.
Margaret Atwood, Surfacing, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1972, p. 171.
PIACE: Northern Quebec
TIME: 1972
CIRCUMSTANCE:
In a moment the first rain hits the roof. It patters, changes to a steady drumming, sound of an avalanche, surrounding.
Margaret Atwood, Surfacing, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1972, p. 174.
PIACE: Northern Quebec
TIME: 1972
CIRCUMSTANCE:
Above on the roof is the finger-tapping of water dripping from trees.
Margaret Atwood, Surfacing, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1972.
PIACE: Northern Quebec
TIME: 1972
CIRCUMSTANCE:
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