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The little parson talked like an eggbeater.
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, Toronto/Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1966, p. 265.
PLACE: The Parson Owen's home, Victoria.
TIME: November 6, 1936.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Visiting the parson with a check and a plant from her deceased sister, Lizzie.
It is scarlet and purple, a tiny, dainty, swaying bell silently ringing with the slightest breeze. The organs on each side of your head don't register the sound but the soul does.
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, Toronto/Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1966, p. 301 - 302.
PLACE: Beckley Street house, Victoria, B.C.
TIME: November 3, 1938.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Describing her 3 year-old fuchsia bush.
My fuchsia tree is loved by others than me. As I lie in my bed close to the open window there is a constant humming, a soft fine whirr quite different to mechanical, metal sounds. It is a velvety sound of flesh and blood. The air dandles it like a loved baby.
The hummingbirds whizz and whizz and whisk away with the flashing dart of a spontaneous giggle. It is as though you had been able to stick out a finger and stroke the joy of life.
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, Toronto/Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1966, p. 302
PLACE: Beckley Street house, Victoria, B.C.
TIME: November 3, 1938.
CIRCUMSTAINCE: Describing hummingbirds at her fuchsia bush.
The rain drops hit the roof with smacking little clicks, uneven and stabbing. Through the open windows the sound of the rain on the leaves is not like that. It is more like a continuous sigh, a breath always spending with no fresh intake. The roof rain rattles over our room's hollowness, strikes and is finished.
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, Toronto/Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1966, p. 305.
PLACE: Mrs. Shadforth's little one-room shack on Craigflower Road, Victoria.
TIME: September 14, 1939.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Impressions while camping in the shack.
The fog-horn comes thickly, shouting a stomachy blare like a discontented cow.
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, Toronto/Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1966, p. 306.
PLACE: Mrs. Shadforth's little one-room shack on Craigflower Road, Victoria.
TIME: September 16, 1939.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Impressions while camping in the shack.
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