Temporary Kings - Anthony Powell
ANTHONY POWELL
TEMPORARY KINGS
A NOVEL
Book 11
A Dance to the Music of Time
HEINEMANN : LONDON
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The smell of Venice suffused the night, lacustrine essences richly distilled. Late summer was hot here. A very old man took the floor. Hoarse, tottering, a few residual teeth, arbitrarily assembled and darkly stained, underpinning the buoyancy of his grin, he rendered the song in slower time than ordinary, clawing the air with his hands, stamping the floor with his feet, wh ...