| In America the ice-storm is an event. And
it is not an event which one is careless about. When it comes, the news
flies from room to room in the house, there are bangings on the doors, and
shoutings, "The ice-storm! the ice-storm!" and even the laziest
sleepers throw off the covers and join the rush for the windows. - Following the Equator It occurs to me now that I have never seen the ice-storm put upon canvas, and have not heard that any painter has tried to do it. I wonder why that is. Is it that paint cannot counterfeit the intense blaze of a sun-flooded jewel? - Following the Equator |
 AI image created by Barbara Schmidt |
|
The Taj has had no rival among the temples and palaces
of men, none that even remotely approached it--it was man's architectural
ice-storm.
- Following the Equator |
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