Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zendie was tired then, the girl read aloud. And she felt weak and small sitting at the little white iron table, overlooking the glass-blue lake, high in the Swiss Alps...
...girl sat in a bulky sweater at a great oval mahogany table, around which sat the other members of English HTb. Her nose was severe, her mouth very small, her hair straight and plain. She read in an incisive monotone...
...across from her. "God," Zendie said, feeling his dark eyes on her cheek as she looked out over the lake, "I think I'll never leave this place. Oh, look at the boats, they're like swans; and look at the swans, they're like white-caps. Oh," she read, lighting cigarette and penciling a notation in the margin...
...reminded of Bouree, and Lotta, and Vieri. And of course I must think of Belasz and Tolespa, and dear little Treyispa: and Grondi and Bartolo. God, Felipe," Zendie said, "those afternoons in the piazza, and the evenings on the Bierenspitzenplatz, and the mornings at La Dolope," the girl read, tapping her cigarette drily over the ashtray. The white-caps are like diamonds, the girl enunciated...
Soviet writers, he continued, produce creative works which the world never sees. He explained that much of their writing is done "for the drawer," to be read only by a few other literary people...