“They looked so familiar that for a moment Claude feared he had doubled back to Mrs. Merritt's city, until a sudden wave… — Douglas Woolf Deluge Copy Share Image
“With daylight (it was exactly a week since he last dressed for the office) he found himself passing through farmland over which… — Douglas Woolf Farmland Copy Share Image
“Beside him Mr. Harris folded his morning newspaper and held it out to Claude. "Seen this yet?" "No." "Don't read it," Mr.… — Douglas Woolf Bias Copy Share Image
“Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop, don't turn around,… — Douglas Woolf Automobiles Copy Share Image
“He died of a breaking heart," Pete said, making a stout log fence of his hands around the glove compartment and leaning… — Douglas Woolf Breaking heart Copy Share Image
“Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool.… — Douglas Woolf Day to day Copy Share Image
“Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as a… — Douglas Woolf Beatnik Copy Share Image
“Yet he could not enjoy the walk. In the morning especially a bougainvillaea looks handmade, lawns are always lawns, and it is… — Douglas Woolf Cat Copy Share Image
“He awoke on the desert gliding at seventyfive, to see a single great headlight topping a rise not far off and bearing… — Douglas Woolf Automobile Copy Share Image
“One thing he held against the bird force was the curse of knowing always which direction he was headed in, without the… — Douglas Woolf 1950s Copy Share Image
“He found the building in front of which he had stood in the sun all day waiting to be discharged, in which… — Douglas Woolf Another day Copy Share Image
“Closing the door, Claudine looked at him. She looked at him, and while he waited for some expression to come to her… — Douglas Woolf Complicated things Copy Share Image
“So he stopped at the first of them, a frigid hothouse whose front tipped forward over the street in defiance of gravity,… — Douglas Woolf Bar Copy Share Image
“So they drove again, Vivien sitting up and looking now, but as navigator only, letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry… — Douglas Woolf Cactus Copy Share Image
“Whether or not, he felt very much at home in this state. It was to places like this that they had sent… — Douglas Woolf America Copy Share Image
“With such luck as this, he rode the beast in the jaunty way that she deserved, back north, seemingly back from Mexico,… — Douglas Woolf Bar Copy Share Image
“At the high school a pretty girl strolled across the parking lot to her black stallion, let her cigarette dangle from her… — Douglas Woolf Girl Copy Share Image
“ ... family men, Claude." "Then why aren't they home with their families?" "You haven't been listening to me, Claude. It takes… — Douglas Woolf 1950s Copy Share Image
“the canvases which Mr. St. Jones referred to with a paintbrush that was long and slightly bowed: for the most part interiors,… — Douglas Woolf Subterranean Copy Share Image
“Come on, Princess," he called to the bench, and Carlotta bounced up. She was wide like the rest of them, but no… — Douglas Woolf Sex Copy Share Image
“He must have pressed the wrong button, or several of them, for when the door fretted open he found himself deep underground,… — Douglas Woolf Creepy Copy Share Image
“Are you the owner of this car?" A cop has something you don't have, something you gave him earlier. "No, I'm just… — Douglas Woolf Cop Copy Share Image
“Pete offered tobacco and paper, but Claude brought out his cigarettes and they both decided to try those. Pete provided the match.… — Douglas Woolf Smile Copy Share Image
“They were mostly French, a few Arabs, and despite their uniforms they didn't look very important any more. Later I learned that… — Douglas Woolf Death Copy Share Image
