Word: shadeless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though not as sad to he among the living there Along the avenues I saw the poor and dark-shinned waiting shadeless in the level heat and metallic air. They seemed forgotten people waiting for the time...
...opening "purple silence" of a shadeless summer's day we anticipate the novel's first steps. A stranger walks slowly into the landscape, this "frame of almost human expectancy," and advances, with Hardy-like fatality, toward the summer house of a famous old astronomer who seems to have "already reached the end of the world." A violently freakish tempest roars...