Balcony Stories

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Balcony StoriesISBN13:9781496118929ISBN10:1496118928Author:King, Grace (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - There Is Much Of Life Passed On The Balcony In A Country Where The Summer Unrolls In Six Moon-Lengths, And Where The Nights Have To Come With A Double Endowment Of Vastness And Splendor To Compensate For The Tedious, Sun-Parched Days And In That Country The Women Love To Sit And Talk Together Of Summer Nights, On Balconies, In Their Vague, Loose, White Garments, - Men Are Not Balcony Sitters, - With Their Sleeping Children Within Easy Hearing, The Stars Breaking The Cool Darkness, Or The Moon Making A Show Of Light - Oh, Such A Discreet Show Of Light - Through The Vines And The Children Inside, Waking To Go From One Sleep Into Another, Hear The Low, Soft Mother-Voices On The Balcony, Talking About This Person And That, Old Times, Old Friends, Old Experiences; And It Seems To Them, Hovering A Moment In Wakefulness, That There Is No End Of The World Or Time, Or Of The Mother-Knowledge; But, Illimitable As It Is, The Mother-Voices And The Mother-Love And Protection Fill It All, - With Their Mother's Hand In Theirs, Children Are Not Afraid Even Of God, - And They Drift Into Slumber Again, Their Little Dreams Taking All Kinds Of Pretty Reflections From The Great Unknown Horizon Outside, As Their Fragile Soap-Bubbles Take On Reflections From The Sun And Clouds Experiences, Reminiscences, Episodes, Picked Up As Only Women Know How To Pick Them Up From Other Women's Lives, - Or Other Women's Destinies, As They Prefer To Call Them, - And Told As Only Women Know How To Relate Them; What God Has Done Or Is Doing With Some Other Woman Whom They Have Known - That Is What Interests Women Once Embarked On Their Own Lives, - The Embarkation Takes Place At Marriage, Or After The Marriageable Time, - Or, Rather, That Is What Interests The Women Who Sit Of Summer Nights On Balconies For In Those Long-Moon Countries Life Is Open And Accessible, And Romances Seem To Be Furnished Real And Gratis, In Order To Save, In A Languor-Breeding Climate, The Ennui Of Reading And Writing Books Each Woman Has A Different Way Of Picking Up And Relating Her Stories, As Each One Selects Different Pieces, And Has A Personal Way Of Playing Them On The Piano Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2014-03-01Weight:0.43 lbsDimensions:0.22'' H x 10'' L x 7'' WNumber of Pages:104Language:English

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