http://rex.mywordsontheweb.com/one a novel blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:01:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://rex.mywordsontheweb.com/one#comment-44 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:18:46 +0000 http://rex.mywordsontheweb.com/one#comment-44 [...] After a time, there was no more a sense of the water rising, since there was no solid thing against which to measure any rising. But the water was still rising. It had made of the earth a sphere of black liquid. Unimaginable depths receded beneath the tiny mattress. Instead of climbing, now the bed seemed to be pressed upon from above, by celestial objects that appeared to descend on it. The pale disk of the moon slowly enlarged over the boy’s bed, casting the sleeping figure in a cold, yellow light. And when it seemed that the moon and stars were themselves in jeopardy of being drowned, there came from that blackest depth of the ocean a pulse of sound. The sound traveled up through lightless fathoms, the node of its meaning undiminished by the great distance, and it burst on the surface in a convulsive tremor of bubbles and spume… @ [...] […] After a time, there was no more a sense of the water rising, since there was no solid thing against which to measure any rising. But the water was still rising. It had made of the earth a sphere of black liquid. Unimaginable depths receded beneath the tiny mattress. Instead of climbing, now the bed seemed to be pressed upon from above, by celestial objects that appeared to descend on it. The pale disk of the moon slowly enlarged over the boy’s bed, casting the sleeping figure in a cold, yellow light. And when it seemed that the moon and stars were themselves in jeopardy of being drowned, there came from that blackest depth of the ocean a pulse of sound. The sound traveled up through lightless fathoms, the node of its meaning undiminished by the great distance, and it burst on the surface in a convulsive tremor of bubbles and spume… @ […]

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