Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a key to the system's inner logic, it is in the environment's response to changes of mood. When Colin feels ready to fall in love, doors begin to close "with the sound of a kiss on a bare shoulder," and the air turns sultry. This environmental adaptability is all very well in the first half of the book, when Colin's main preoccupations are his love for Chloe, for Duke Ellington's music, and for the gastronomical delights concocted by his cook. But when Chloe falls fatally ill the atmosphere of light and luxury changes...
...then? In his forward, Vian declares, "There are only two things: love, all sorts of live, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duck Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. . . ." This is a flippantly stated philosophy, but the hedonistic note it sound accords well with Vian's own life-style. A cardiac case from childhood, Vian decided to ignore his illness with a vengeance. He was a jazz musician, a composer, an engineer, an actor and a playwright as well as a novelist. Friend of writers like Sartre and Ionesco, habitu?...
...that side. I should start from the front. Bullets flying, grown men and a lot of boys crying, rain. The under-ground surfacing in the sound of bombs ad applause. Hop scotch on the rocks. Saturday in my air conditioned studio, I spent most of the time in the dark room WROOMB my little girl calls it. Guess what her name...
...yellowish light shone through the closed drapes. The room was a mess. Outside the traffic had its finest hour. The dirty snow festooned the gutters running harmoniously in the dripping dirty water. The quite sound of water filled the room. Pale yellowish toes protruded from the end of the bed, from beneath a tattered blanket. Not that Scott was tall. He had just inched his way down the bed. He wanted to dabble his feet in the sound of running water...
...windows were rolled up. The air conditioner hummed. Otherwise no sound broke the silence as Mildred and Nathan drove through the city in the night. Nathan had had several drinks. Mildred had been drinking since five. The neon went past...