“It seemed odd to Joel that nature did not reflect so solemn an event: flowers of cotton-boll clouds within a sky as scandalously blue as kitten-eyes were offensive to their sweet disrespect.”

—  Truman Capote , book Other Voices, Other Rooms

At Jesus Fever's funeral
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)

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