WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT
SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE


457.

... from which rose the rattle and chatter and whistling and catcalls, all the zoo-noises of the battalion beginning a new day.

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Penguin Books, London, 1962, p.21.

PLACE: Southern England

TIME: Sometime during World War II

CIRCUMSTANCE: Description of an army camp

 

458.

On some days life kept pace with the gondola, as we nosed through the side-canals and the boatman uttered his plaintive musical birdcry of warning;

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Penguin Books, London, 1962, P.97.

PLACE: Venice

TIME: 1922

CIRCUMSTANCE: Talking of the boatmen (gondoliers).

 

459.

We ate to the music of the press - the crunch of bones, the drip of blood and marrow, the tap of the spoon basting the thin slices of breast.

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Penguin Books, London, 1962, p.168.

PLACE: Paillard's Restaurant, Paris

TIME: 1922

CIRCUMSTANCE: They are making the dish "caneton a la presse" (pressed duckling) on a trolley close to the diners.

 

460.

... the light of the hall was suffused from scores of hollows, giving an even glow, casting no shadows - the whole place hummed from its hundred ventilators and vibrated with the turn of the great engines below.

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Penguin Books, London, 1962, p.225.

PLACE: Passenger liner crossing the Atlantic.

TIME: ca. 1930


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