ENG 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hear Music, Newsprint
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I read it, and i couldn"t believe it, and i read it again. Then perhaps i just stared at it, at the newsprint spelling out his name, spelling out the story. Inner darkness: they were filled with rage. And my mother rocks a little from the waist, and my father"s eyes are closed. Everyone is looking at something a child can"t see. Maybe a kid is lying on the rug, half asleep. Maybe somebody"s got a kid in his lap and is absent-mindedly stroking the lad"s head. Maybe there"s a kid, quiet and big-eyed, curled up in a big chair in the comer. The silence, the darkness coming, and the darkness in the faces frighten the child obscurely. He hopes that the hand which strokes his forehead will never stop-will never die. [ ] but something deep and watchful in the child knows that this is bound to end, is already ending.
