East of eden by john steinbeck5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished. ![]() ![]() And then -the glory- so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. The events, even the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. “Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |