Word: vag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a small, triangular shelf hung between the chimney and a gable, and here Vag could lie, almost completely stripped, protected from the interested gaze of strollers who might happen to glance up at the House roof. Here he could surrender himself to the rays of the hot sun--allow these rays to suck the energy out of him until he was their debilitated slave, let them gradually numb-his senses until he felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that...
...Opposite Vag was another granite wall, rising as steeply from the valley floor as the walls of a room. The vast expanse of bare rock, which swept upward with breath-taking rapidity, was as ponderously grand as the earth itself. Crowning the cliff was an abrupt line of forest; and Vag could imagine wandering into it. Here were no scrub-by pines with long dusty-green needles--mere chaparral growth such as covered the foot--hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above...
...unwound his large and straightened up in his chair. "Say, I have seen you before somewhere," he accused her. "And my name is Vag! Now when was it?" he demanded...
...back when thousands shrieked for "Reinhart" and got him, when the Pops began, when the red oars flashed and a big voice in a little body called "Stroke," when you, Vag, decided to call up the girl you met at the Radcliffe tea one snowy January, and when she was out four successive nights you felt empty and dull and sodden...
...glad you remembered, Vag. Don't ever forget again. But I won't disturb you any longer. Except for this---" She picked up Meade and flung it across the room...