Activity

there is in every child the essentially human urge to reshape the earth, to act upon a friable environment (unless he is a born Marxist or a corpse and meekly waits for the environment to fashion him)

fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns, and where, in some dappled depth, man’s mind had been born

I look back upon my almost couvade-like concern with our baby

A limpid dawn had completely unsheathed one side of the empty street.

The day before, after months of soliciting and cursing, the emetic of a bribe had been administered to the right rat at the right office