海口

We have no especially sacred traditions; except for what someone somehow pieces together from old books. There are bookish dreams here, sir, there is a heart chafed by theories.

“Although the morning was young, the hazy mirage was up. The uncertain air that magnified some things and blotted out others hung over the whole Gulf so that all sights were unreal and vision could not be trusted; so that sea and land had the sharp clarities and the vagueness of a dream. Thus it might be that the people of the Gulf trust things of the spirit and things of the imagination, but they do not trust their eyes to show them distance or clear outline or any optical exactness.”

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John SteinbeckThe Pearl (14)

  • 1 September 2011