Brilliant Prose

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 […]

Sunset / Joseph Conrad

Sunset / Joseph Conrad

    The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance.  The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores […]