ENG 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: William Golding, Megaphone, Mirage
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Eng 2150 writing ii, prof. john lux, class 1. The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witchlike cry; and this cry was echoed by another. The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering. The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like the home counties. "i can"t hardly move with all these creeper things. "
