![]() ![]() He could see them in their cities, in the heat and the light. Do you? Outside, he thought, beyond this mountain and its snow, there was a world of countless millions of people. ![]() Without looking up, she said, But do you believe in love, Mr Evans? She rolled the cigarette end around in the ash tray. “She took a puff, put the cigarette in the ashtray and stared at it. ![]() At such times he had the sensation that there was only one book in the universe, and that all books were simply portals into this greater ongoing work-an inexhaustible, beautiful world that was not imaginary but the world as it truly was, a book without beginning or end.” It wasn't really the great poem of antiquity that Dorrigo Evans wanted though, but the aura he felt around such books-an aura that both radiated outwards and took him inwards to another world that said to him that he was not alone.Īnd this sense, this feeling of communion, would at moments overwhelm him. ![]() He found several shelves full of old editions of classical writers and began vaguely browsing, hoping to find a cheap edition of Virgil's Aeneid, which he had only ever read in a borrowed copy. All around him dust motes rose and fell, shimmering, quivering in those shafts of roiling light. “He pulled out a book here and there, but what kept catching his attention were the diagonal tunnels of sunlight rolling in through the dormer windows. ![]()
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