forthshadowed

Updated: May 18, 2025

For hours they talked, Bone desperately striving to make his dreams articulate to Carl and to himself. They ate fish fried on the powder-can stove, with half-warm coffee. They walked a few steps outside the shack in the ringing cold, to stretch stiff legs. Carl saw a world of unuttered freedom and beauty forthshadowed in Bone's cloudy speech. But he was melancholy.

Sinclair Lewis - The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life