He sucked it deep into his lungs - a stirring foulness; he raptly breathed in the swampiness of old pipes. The wheels were speeding with a sharp racket, biting the rails. The cold fall sun flamed over the New Jersey mills. Volcanic shapes of slag, rushes, dumps, refineries, ghostly torches, and presently the fields and woods. The short oaks bristled like metal. The fields turned blue. Each radio spire was like a needle's eye with a drop of blood in it. The dull bricks of Elizabeth fell behind. At dusk Trenton approached like the heart of a coal fire. Herzog read the municipal sign - TRENTON MAKES, THE WORLD TAKES!
(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Herzog - pg. 105
Labels: Saul Bellow
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