VV(18): Clouds

[Dave Monroe]

"The clouds hung like leprous tissue." (V., Ch. 14, Sec. i, p. 394)

Oops, forgot ...

"... the flowered bag without gaiety under the clouds" (p. 395) ...

"Itague looked far to the south, at the hanging yellow cloud which hadn't 
changed its shape" (p. 399).  A la the "toxic event" in Don DeLillo's White 
Noise?  And cf. "The curtain hung in total stilness.  If Itague could have 
found its pulleys or linkage, he might make it stir.  Might penetrate to the 
wall of the night's theater" (p. 401).  An "Itague," by the way, appears to 
be some sort of ship's rigging, at least in French, but I'll post on that 
soon enough ...

"The entire room and the bodies inside it--some twisted, some coupled, some 
awake--the scattered Hosts, the black furniture, were all bathed in an 
exhausted yellow light, filtered through rain clouds which refused to 
burst." (p. 403)

Sorry, obviously in a bit of a rush tonight ...
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