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A cicada was singing in a tree nearby, its monotonous vibration like a hot needle of sunlight between the ears.
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, McClelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto & Montreal, 1969, p. 32.
TIME: 1960's
PLACE: Toronto
CIRCUMSTANCE: a hot summer day in a garden in suburbia.
We walked down towards the subway in the semi-dusk, through the sound of crickets and muffled television sets (in some of the houses we could see them flickering blue through the open windows) and a smell of warm tar.
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, McClelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto & Montreal, 1969.
TIME: 1960's
PLACE: Toronto
CIRCUMSTANCE: an urban summer evening
"Well, actually it's about beer," I said in a tinsel-bright voice,trying to make the word sound as skim-milk-like as possible.
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, McClelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto & Montreal, 1969, p.46
TIME: 1960's
PLACE: Toronto
CIRCUMSTANCE: woman's voice, while going from house to house, trying to get people to answer a questionnaire about a certain brand of beer.
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