Yellow and Black time and then a blink and then yellow again: wings as fast crossbow between the sun and the eye shadows for a moment on his face like a velvet a hand for a moment and then light or darkness rather recall (warning?) reminder of the darkness welling up and down a blistering speed that is palpable to say the chin successively mouth nose forehead can be felt and even olfactory smell musty vault of the tomb as a handful of black earth at the same hearing time the noise of silk torn or wrinkled air can not be seen heard anything imagined bird arrow castigating whisking already missing the tail vibrating features intersecting drawing a fatal vault hissing as seen in this table where? naval battle between the Venetians and Genoese in a sea blue-black crêtelée thorny and a galley to the other arch feathered humming in the night sky one of them entering into his open mouth as he rushed sword raised in front leading his soldiers nailing piercing the cry in his throat
Obscure haloed dove saffron
Claude Simon, the Battle of Pharsalia
(Minuit, 1969 incipit )
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