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“The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.”

Eye Sound Mouths Hot Ancient Dry Stomach Engines Cages Palms Jet Ribs Pavement Vacant Travels With Charley Warming Up Rib Cage

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“When everything flows into place ? washes dry tonally correct, crisp and sparkling, the light scheme is sound and the "accidentals" are all happy ones ? I'm temporarily in a euphoric state.”

States Light Sound Flow Accidents Dry Schemes Crisps Sparkling Euphoric

Author:Bill Luff

“Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.”

Thinking Different Sometimes Sound Change Fire Paper Died Rose Woods Dry

Book:Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

Source: Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

“The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless leaves. It is the main theme of the autumn music, this murmuring counterpoint of dead leaves.”

Wells Different Moving Language Sound Voice Air Tree Wind Shapes Summer Fingers Tone Theme Dry Autumn Strings Harsh Leafs Filling Harps Murmuring

Book:The Glory of the Garden

Source: The Glory of the Garden

“Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.”