blanketwise

Updated: May 21, 2025

The heat exhaling from brick and plaster and metal met the heat that steadily descended blanketwise and smothering, from the pale, scorched sky. Only the lizards they lived in chinks of the crumbling adobe and in interstices of the sidewalk remained without, motionless, as if stuffed, their eyes closed to mere slits, basking, stupefied with heat.

Frank Norris - The Octopus : A story of California