For Breughel's Notebook They brought her in at about seven in the evening, the sun hanging low between Meindert and Oudskarpel and the Meerwater ringing with fish... - http://www.bhikku.net/2009...
Jacob Riis, New York, 1880s. The top photo, Bandit's Roost, is especially unforgettable, and has rattled around in my head for 30 years or so. - http://www.bhikku.net/2009...
It's frightening, when you pause to think to what an extent you live up to people and are being lived up to in your turn, how generally you fake yourself in blind... - http://www.bhikku.net/2009...
He . . . thrust his hands into the snow like a baker making bread. As he delved and moulded the snow into loaves, saying under his breath, 'This is the way it is... - http://www.bhikku.net/2009...
A few stragglers were standing outside the Ballast Office . . . waiting for the ball to rise on its pole on the roof. That would mark twelve o'clock, and the time... - http://www.bhikku.net/2009...
Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor... - http://www.bhikku.net/2009...