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I was leaning back against the wall, sipping at my cognac, the noise of voices and music slapping against me like waves.
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, McClelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto & Montreal, 1969, p.75.
TIME: 1960's
PLACE: Toronto
CIRCUMSTANCE: a party
He turned the ignition key and the heartbeats of the windshield wipers stopped. We sat silently, listening to the storm. It must have been right overhead; the lightning was dazzling and continuous, and each probing jagged fork was followed almost at once by a rending crash, like the trees of a whole forest splitting and falling. In the intervals of darkness we heard the rain pounding against the car....
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, McClelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto & Montreal, 1969, p.82.
TIME: l960's
PLACE: Toronto in the vicinity thereof.
CIRCUMSTANCE: a storm
Once I went to the zoo and there was a cage with a frenzied armadillo in it going around in figure eights, just around and around in the same path. I can still remember the funny metallic sound its feet made on the bottom of the cage.
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, McClelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto & Montreal, 1969, p.95.
TIME: 1960's
PLACE: Toronto
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