Brilliant Prose

Sunset / Joseph Conrad

Sunset / Joseph Conrad

    The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance.  The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores […]

Sexual Act / Hemingway

Sexual Act / Hemingway

    For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and […]