Mary Talbot
“Mary Talbot . . . was lovely. She had red hair with green lights in it. Her skin was golden with a green under cast and her eyes were green with little golden spots. Her face was triangular, with wide cheekbones, wide-set eyes, and her chin was pointed. She had long dancer’s legs and dancer’s feet and she seemed never to touch the ground when she walked. When she was excited, and she was excited a good deal of the time, her face flushed with gold. Her great-great-great-great-great grandmother had been burned as a witch.”
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, 1945.
a great big woman with flaming orange hair
“Dora is a great woman, a great big woman with flaming orange hair and a taste for Nile green evening dresses.”
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, 1945.
perpetual moonlight
“Then the darkness edges in and the street light comes on in front of Dora’s—the lamp which makes perpetual moonlight in Cannery Row.”
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, 1945.
the hour of the pearl
“It is the hour of the pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, 1945.
Brian Eno
Fred Hersch
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