Modern American Memoirs by Conley Cort
Author:Conley, Cort [Conley, Cort]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Writing, Anthologies, Biography
ISBN: 9780060927639
Amazon: 0060927631
Goodreads: 228729
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 1995-01-01T08:00:00+00:00
In the morning I saw nothing but the food on my plate, the slit of light at the window. It was on the horizon, but it might have been attached to the blind. Dawn. Sunrise would not come for another hour. The wind blowing under the house puffed dust between the floorboards, like smoke. There was never any talk. My Uncle would slip off his coveralls, like a flight suit, and eat in his two suits of underwear: one of fine, snug-fitting wool, flecked with gray, like a pigeon; the other of heavy, nubby cotton flannel with the elbows patched with quilting, the fly-seat yawning. The outer suit would come off in the spring, but the inner suit was part of my Uncle. I once saw him plucked like a chicken, standing in a small wash basin of water while Agnes wiped him off with a damp towel. Dust. He was dusted rather than washed.*
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