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Whole town out there is up to their earholes in watchsprings, no hands on the clocks, afraid to get up every morning and find it’s always always and forever Sunday!
The Toynbee Convector (1988)
“You go against the letter of the law!”
“No,” explained the priest, calmly, “we but shift the punctuation, cross new t’s, dot new i’s.”
The Toynbee Convector (1988)
“Watch your liver!” said his mother.
“Is that a threat, or a toast?” said his father.
The Toynbee Convector (1988)
I felt that killing wrench men feel when beauty passes and will not pass again. You want to cry out: Stay. I love you. But you do not speak. And the summer walks away in her flesh, never to return.
The Toynbee Convector (1988)
He struck off into the forest, idly, drawn steadily by a sound that was large enough to fill the universe, the sound of a river going somewhere and not caring; the most beautiful sound of all.
The Toynbee Convector (1988)