Extollager
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A thread for sharing passages describing the appearances of things, sounds, textures, etc. Sources may be from works of fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry.
Please do not select passages in which the emphasis is on what characters are doing or thinking (narration).
We're talking about the passages that impatient readers might skip as they hurry to find out what happened.
It is OK if your selection is several paragraphs long, though it should be an excerpt of a longer piece rather than a complete prose poem.
You may identify the source straightaway or invite readers to say where the passage is from.
"Low down and near the horizon hung a great, red sun....a sun near the end of its life, weary of looking down upon that world. To the left of the sun, and higher up, there was one single star, big and bright. Those were the only two things to be seen in the dark sky...and on the earth, in every direction, as far as the eye could reach, there spread a vast city in which there was no living thing to be seen."
Please do not select passages in which the emphasis is on what characters are doing or thinking (narration).
We're talking about the passages that impatient readers might skip as they hurry to find out what happened.
It is OK if your selection is several paragraphs long, though it should be an excerpt of a longer piece rather than a complete prose poem.
You may identify the source straightaway or invite readers to say where the passage is from.
"Low down and near the horizon hung a great, red sun....a sun near the end of its life, weary of looking down upon that world. To the left of the sun, and higher up, there was one single star, big and bright. Those were the only two things to be seen in the dark sky...and on the earth, in every direction, as far as the eye could reach, there spread a vast city in which there was no living thing to be seen."