英語で書く季節のエントリー
Impressive Passage

I'm impressed by the following passage from The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek:

"l wanted a ticket out of my life, to be riding a train whose windows slid past a landscape of grain stacks in winter fields. It might be taking me to the beach of Saint-Adresse where the fishing boats have been drawn up onto the sand and a man with a telescope and his daughter by his side looks out to sea, or to Pourville where the wind gusts along the cliff walk and a woman opens an orange parasol while white sails hardly taller than the white-capped waves pitch on the blue-green sea.
    Yet, I would always end my walk through the paintings, standing before the diner in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. Perhaps I needed its darkness to balance the radiance of the other paintings. It was night in Hopper's paintings; the diner illuminated the dark city corner with a stark light it didn't seem capable of throwing on its own. Three customers sat at the counter as if waiting, not for something to begin, but rather to end, and I knew how effortless it would be to open my eyes and find myself waiting there, too."


☆The winter fields and/or the blue-green sea change(s) to the dark city corner. Attractive description!

☆I love the stark light in Hopper's Nighthawks.