Word: sillness
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...young, has led a void life caring for the old lady (Agnes Moorehead), has compensated by poring over the poet's letters, has conceived a coy necrophilia for him. By day she is the cold spinster, by night ah! with her kitten and her finch and that sill ver oubliette which holds the letters (sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very Mab of love. The publishing fellow (Robert Cummings), sniffing out the letters, blunders into her dream, effects a gentle transfer of her affects to his own living person and, though lose he must the literary remains...
JOSEPH L. FLEMING Fort Sill, Okla...
...cross the supersonic thresholds of the mind-the point at which the familiar sound-lengths of human life dissolve into inhuman silence. If they pass the barrier of dissolution, they may investigate in uncompetitive privacy the mysteries inaudible to the other minds. If they can recross the sonic sill, alive and sane, they may report what they have experienced to men who, never having known the experience, will never quite understand the report. Franz Kafka ventured across the barrier, reported with an apparent lucidity the cryptographs of silence, and was little understood. "Franz Kafka," wrote Franz Werfel, "was a messenger...
...Besson had one foot over the window sill of his Paris flat when police broke in and collared him. The raiders also found stacks of counterfeit food and clothing coupons; a rackful of fake government rubber stamps; a veritable alchemy plant and enough pieces of gold to light the eyes of Captain Kidd...
Skimmed. In Jamestown, N.Y., a half-full milk bottle skidded off a window sill, plummeted six stories, crashed through a thin wooden panel, landed bolt upright, unbroken...