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...them moving! And I went to work shaking boughs, bombarding with cones, rustling, hooting...Then I took a closer look, and I was horror-struck. Here's a man with his head hanging by one flimsy crimson thread, there's one with a heap of thick worms for stomach...I could not endure it. I let out a howl, jumped...
...precision can be too clinical, as in the depiction of a character from The Vane Sisters: "The interval between her thick black eyebrows was always shiny, and shiny too were the fleshy volutes of her nostrils." But elsewhere there is divinity in the details: "The roofs blaze like oblique, sunblinded mirrors. A winged woman stands on a windowsill washing the panes. She bends over, pouts, brushes a strand of flaming hair from her face. The air is faintly redolent of gasoline and lindens...
...slacker when it came to details, she augmented an orange vinyl jacket, blue paisley butterfly collar shirt and brown bell-bottoms with a thick gold chain and a patch of black chest hair...
...Wolfgang Pauli first proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930, he labeled his hypothetical particle "a frightful thing." The neutrino would neatly explain a tiny energy imbalance in certain nuclear reactions, but it would also be so ethereal that the average neutrino could zip through a trillion-mile-thick chunk of lead without hitting a single atom. Since the particles would presumably sail undetected through any measuring device, Pauli lamented, his clever idea could never be proved correct...
...women with thick New York accents chatted about their families. A teenage girl in a light blue satiny shirt stood reclining against her boyfriend. A smartly uniformed doorman on 75th St. told those blocking his entrance about a store where they could find a magazine. In the autumn rain, umbrella salesmen were making a killing...