which the asphalt had long forgotten
*
rear cover, detail (90ºccw; levels 30 1.00 255)
Harvard copy of
B. M. Bower (Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, 1871-1940 *), The Thunder Bird (1919)
same copy, same (?) scan at archive.org (minus frontispiece illustration and cover mis-scan)
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with the first storm wind 274
from the dust storm kicked up 272
with difficulty a storm of reproaches 86
a rain storm which the asphalt had long forgotten 210
There was no earth. There was only a sliding relief map far below... 151
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via Doug Giebel’s comment to Nicole Krauss, “Do Women Get to Write With Authority?” in The New York Times (September 22, 2017).
tags:
asphalt; difficulties; dust; sky; B. M. Bower, The Thunder Bird (1919); Nicole Krauss