Excerpt
from C. S. Lewis' That
Hideous Strength:
“A
flame coloured robe, in which her bands were hidden covered this
person from the feet to where it rose behind her neck in a kind of
high ruff-like collar, but in front it was so low or open that it
exposed her large breasts. Her skin was darkish and Southern and
glowing, almost the colour of honey. Some such dress Jane had seen
worn by a Minoan priestess on a vase from old Cnossus. The head,
poised motionless on the muscular pillar of her neck, stared straight
at Jane. It was a red-cheeked, wet-lipped face, with black
eyes-almost the eyes of a cow-and an enigmatic expression.”
This
stood out to me as an appropriate reading for our class because of
how visual it was. It is almost like a movie in its vivid imagery. It
speaks with color, texture, nudity, wet lips ect. Its the kind of
writing that doest tell you, but shows you, just as good films do.
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