“A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.” LightAirSweetRainEmptyGhostBeastChestsAfternoonAcheGlamourDaylightUnfinishedPuddlesCarnivalsMidwaySawdustWheezing Author:Katherine Dunn
“Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.” MenDoeBookAirStreetsTasteLateBrilliantProfessorsAfternoonBostonAprilWilsonChestnuts Book:The Essential Willa Cather Collection Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection
“The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.” BookBornAirParticularIntellectualShadowPropertyLawyerAfternoonConferencesNovemberIntellectual Property Author:Michael Gruber
“The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.” DreamSunAliveAirMysterySeaSkyMountainRedFilledGladStealingHillsFlamesScoreAutumnAfternoonRollingFogGrapesSparkleWispsDrowsyI Am AliveRolling HillsAfternoon Sun Book:John Barleycorn Source: John Barleycorn