“Directly in front of the Swede sat the model of the house. He could
see now what he had not been able to envision from Dawn’s
explanations—exactly how the long shed roof let the light into the main
hallway throught he high row of windows running the length of the front
wall. Yes, now he saw how the sun would arc through the southern sky
and the light would wash—and how happy it seemed to make her just to
say ‘wash’ after ‘light’—wash over the white walls, thus changing
everything for everyone.”

—Philip Roth, American Pastoral, 1997.