“The word for smoke should look like smoke -- the word for rain should look like rain…”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
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The Pillow Book
“The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain…”
opening of side 2)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
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