rock-heads

Updated: May 7, 2025

Then, with the lowered rattan- screens rattling desperately in the wind and the bungalow shaking all over, Freya would sit down to the piano and play fierce Wagner music in the flicker of blinding flashes, with thunderbolts falling all round, enough to make your hair stand on end; and Jasper would remain stock still on the verandah, adoring the back view of her supple, swaying figure, the miraculous sheen of her fair head, the rapid hands on the keys, the white nape of her neck while the brig, down at the point there, surged at her cables within a hundred yards of nasty, shiny, black rock-heads.

Joseph Conrad - 'Twixt Land and Sea