Brilliant Prose

After the Wedding Night/ Pearl S. Buck

After the Wedding Night/ Pearl S. Buck

And then he lay in his bed warm and satisfied while in the kitchen the woman fed the fire and boiled the water. He would  have like to have slept, now that he could, but his foolish body, which he had made to arise every morning so early for all these years, would not sleep […]

Falling Asleep / William Faulkner

Falling Asleep / William Faulkner

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep.  And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you.  And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not.  And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don’t know what I am. I don’t know if I am. I don’t   know […]