 | Gavriel Moses - 1995 - 366 pages
...lifelike manner. 2 The sense of the absence of what the film shows leads directly to the spectator's self: "He caught a glimpse of his mother waving from an...there on the porch, with the smug encroaching air of a coffin; even that was empty, as if, in the reverse course of events, his very bones had disintegrated"... | |
 | Richard Sorabji - 2006 - 416 pages
...saw a world that was practically unchanged — the same house, the same people — and then realised that he did not exist there at all and that nobody...on the porch, with the smug, encroaching air of a coffin; even that was empty, as if, in the reverse course of events, his very bones had disintegrated.... | |
 | Nina L. Khrushcheva - 2008 - 256 pages
...view "the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one [we are] heading for" (SM, 9). On the contrary: He saw a world that was practically unchanged —...on the porch, with the smug, encroaching air of a coffin; even that was empty, as if, in the reverse course of events, his very bones had disintegrated.... | |
| |
He caught a glimpse of his mother waving from an upstairs window, and that unfamiliar gesture disturbed him, as if it were some mysterious farewell. But what particularly frightened him was the sight of a brand-new baby carriage standing there on the... 