The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes

Author:Richard Hughes
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-59017-531-6
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2012-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

All this passed quite unheeded by Augustine: his mind was too full of Mitzi. For Augustine had fallen in love, of course. As a well-made kid glove will be so exactly filled with hand that one can’t even insert a bus-ticket between them, so the membrane of Augustine’s mind was now exactly shaped and stretched to hold Mitzi’s peerless image and nothing more: it felt stretched to bursting by it and couldn’t conceivably find a hair’s-breadth room for anything else.

Augustine navigated now whenever he crossed a room. I mean, like the yachtsman working along the coast who takes some point on his beam to steer by instead of looking straight ahead—some bold headland, or rock-girt lighthouse—and fills his mind with that cynosure: keeps taking new bearings on it, and reckoning his changing distance from it. This was very much the way Augustine now shaped his course across any room that had Mitzi in it. Even when his back was turned to her the very skin under his clothes seemed aware of the direction Mitzi lay: just as the body through its clothes can feel the direction of the sun’s rays falling on it.

Augustine was now twenty-three: but had he ever been in love like this before? Certainly not ... at least, not since his kindergarten days.

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