Friday, April 7, 2017
Five senses, the real one
Sight
They were big, fat vegetables formed with the richness that moisture and good soil produced. 18
Then she stopped seeing, a car was racing past on distant road. 14
At first she saw nothing, then she made out a silver glow in dark, she drew back into shadows, listening. She looked out agin, she searched along the road for people who used ally are out there chatting in quiet groups in dark. 29
The following day his eyes were open again when Desiree entered the hut, this time he recognized her, showed gladness to see her. 40
They looked out the window, the. Out the door at the miracle of morning, looking mountains, where stone gleamed in the clear sky. 48
Hearing
The peasant girl had heard that M. Galimar and a daughter her age, and he sent her across the sea.18
The she strained, listening to the fading sound of its engine. 14
As she listened tot he camionettes passing on road, for he croaking frogs the rasping crickets and the hooting birds in the woods, she knew that nothing in the world could compare with the sweet softness of pure brook water. 21
She pulled it on, but the tear kept widening the rending sound getting louder, louder, louder. Filled her ears, shutting out the noise of rampaging insects. 27
She heard rasping breathing inside. 29
Touch
He bent and scooped up a handful of soil, it ran through his fingers like sand. 13
She had the smoothest skin, the peasant girl. 21
She went up to car and touched it, she, Desiree, touching a car, it was the first she had ever touched. 29
She felt somebody, warm, held against the seat by the steering wheel. A man, she knew from the feel of his chest. 30
She moved her hands gently over his face, his forehead, his hair. How soft his skin, like a girls. 30
Smell
A smell of death invaded the cabin though his festering sores. 44
And pale in the mat. The muddle floor, smelling the stench of his rotting flesh, 51
Mud huts dissolved and sank beneath the thickening currents. 41
The wind swept water into terrible waves that reached up to hill and hit against the door of cabin. 45
Weeds, grass, plants jumped to life, painting the landscapes brilliant green. 55
Taste
the world had become water and mountains, the air was wet. 43
He grinned around a cigar clenched between brown teeth that were dripping with blood. 46
The peasant girl walked with her toes curled away from the hot earth over to the bucket of water in the shade of tree. 15
The old woman drank some, the peasant girl drank the rest,
They had curled from lack of moisture and awaited but one soark to go up in flames. 40
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