His eye followed the lines of the compact white marble mantelpiece. The graceful curves of its cymatium and angled corbels, and the finely turned and elegantly rounded central shell-and-leaf motif countered the feeling that he had somehow been placed—like a porcelain doll set within her square house—into a small and absolutely rectilinear cardboard box. At [...]
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Part One•XXIII•2&3
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Part One•Section XXIII•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 23, tagged doll's house, failure, Japanese prints, moleskin notebook, perfection on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The fading light was beginning to make it difficult to read the sheet music, so Rennie was pleased to take a break while Pierrot ran upstairs to fetch a book. In the darkening room (a room that was already and always dim, he realized, with two of its three windows letting only filtered green [...]
