Hearing Secret Harmonies - Anthony Powell
ANTHONY POWELL
HEARING SECRET HARMONIES
A NOVEL
Book 12
A Dance to the Music of Time
HEINEMANN : LONDON
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DUCK, FLYING IN FROM THE SOUTH, ignored four or five ponderous explosions over at the quarry. The limestone cliff, dominant oblong foreground structure, lateral storeyed platforms, all coral-pink in evening sunlight, projected towards the higher ground on misty mornings a fading mirage of Babylonian terraces suspended in haze above the mere; the palace, with its h ...