Occurrences of the word 'shadow' in VL

[R. Fiero]

1. on Page 58:
"... the pleading, close enough to whining to make her careful. 
This poor sap could too easily settle for any least shadow of 
pain, seemed to want to suffer every hurtful detail. Dummy. Why 
waste his time so? He looked old enough ..."
2. on Page 87:
"... the act of murder, check bouncers, coke snorters, and ass 
grabbers, each with more than ample reason to seek the shadow 
of the fed- eral wing, and some, with luck, able to reach its 
embrace and shelter. Or so they must ..."
3. on Page 89:
"... base beyond. According to signs along the ancient freeway 
system, which ran through towering halls of concrete, echoing, 
full of shadows, there were at least a hundred of these gates, 
each intended to admit - or reject - a different category ..."
4. on Page 98:
"... in front of her shoulders, the surest way she knew, her 
eyes now burning so blue through the fringes and shadows, to 
creep herself out, no matter what time of the day or night, by ..."
5. on Page 102:
"... orange sunlight, guests in gowns from the upper reaches of 
Magnin's and ruffled shirtfronts, tuxes, and tails, throwing 
ever longer shadows up the hillside, wandered, grouped and 
regrouped, ate, drank, smoked, danced, fought, staggered to the 
mike to do guest vocals ..."
6. on Page 108:
"... angles like great coarse mirrors, beneath ancient tile 
roofs gone darkening and corroded under the elements, with 
windows recessed into shadow and seeming to bear no relation to 
any set of levels that might be inside. As they got closer, Prairie ..."
7. on Page 111:
"... girl that this must be a magical gift. She learned later 
that Rochelle had memorized, in this room, all the shadows and 
how they changed, the cover, the exact spaces between things 
... had come to know the room so completely ..."
8. on Page 114:
"... overpass, where tiny figures could be seen heading both 
ways, suggesting, at least for a moment, social tranquillity. 
The women's shadows were long, lapping up over curbs, across 
grass, between the spokes of cyclists. Catching the late or 
early sun were ..."
9. on Page 126:
"... She knew enough to keep out of the way, hunker down, wrap 
her hair in a scarf, wait in a shadow till she saw an elderly 
man in a suit and homburg hat come out the door with Inoshiro 
Sensei. They ..."
10. on Page 133:
"... Mojave, to be redreamed in colors pale but intense, with 
unnaturally fine sand blowing in plumes across the sun, 
baby-blue shadows in the folds of the dunes, a pinkish sky - 
holding on, letting go, redreaming each night stop the less ..."
11. on Page 161:
"... his right mind, and the object of more attention than he 
usually liked. All around the courtyard in the crescent shadows 
he thought he heard small-arms safeties being taken off. Even 
unarmed, any of these kunoichi was tough enough of a ..."
12. on Page 170:
"... orbiter set, and Takeshi, cursing, had to hang up. He came 
back to the booth to find, in the turquoise shadows, his space 
occupied by a young fellow he didn't recognize, one, moreover, 
who had been scarfing away at Takeshi's Galaxy ..."
13. on Page 173:
"... ordinarily hidden, in fact, were somehow clearly visible 
from up here at this one window naive, direct, no shadows, no 
hiding places, every waking outdoor sleeper, empty container, 
lost key, bottle, scrap of paper in the history of the ..."
14. on Page 177:
"... out of the restaurant and down a long viny arcade, among 
invisible birds and dew that still lay in the shadows, to their 
conference room. The little portable sign read OPEN KARMOLOGY 
CLINIC, WALK RIGHT IN, NO APPT. NECESSARY. Takeshi ..."
15. on Page 192:
"... that weren't always legal, sharing these altitudes with 
city falcons who hunted pigeons in the booming prisms of sun 
and shadow below. Prairie still had no idea of what "karmic 
adjustment" was supposed to be, but for the first time ..."
16. on Page 199:
"... distortions of the daylight, and set over college and high 
school campuses turned into military motor pools, throwing oily 
shadows. There was little mercy in these images, except by 
accident backlit sweat on a Guardsman's arm as he swung ..."
17. on Page 202:
"... smile off at some angle, as if embarrassed. "Film equals 
sacrifice," declared Ditzah Pisk. "You don't die for no 
motherfuckin' shadows," Sledge replied. "Long as we have the 
light," Frenesi sounding so sure, "long as we're runnin' that 
juice in, we're ..."
18. on Page 203:
"... like warfare in the street, it could happen as easily 
where they chose to take their witness, back in the shadows 
lighting up things the networks never would - it might only 
take one cop, one redneck, one stupid mistake, everybody ..."
19. on Page 220:
"... 22o VINELAND among long redwood mountainslopes where 
shadows came early and brought easy suspicion of another order 
of things ... believed, through some unseen but potent geometry, to ..."
20. on Page 242:
"... tepid green messenger cables, hangers, and trolley wires 
sprung from brackets on wood poles trembled and sang and cast 
shadows of intricate frogwork as sparks went crackling, nearly 
invisible in the day's glare. She was guided indoors, through 
low plasterboard ..."
21. on Page 253:
"... with his life, but without DL in it. She was already 
inside, away along the fence, becoming its harsh woven shadow, 
watching for patrols, scanning the distant barracks, nocking 
and setting herself, archer and arrow, her passage through the 
turquoise glare ..."
22. on Page 254:
"... it's time for a little rewind and erase on ya, nothing 
personal. . . ." In the green and blue shadows she repeated the 
procedure she'd used on the gate guard. Directed then by soft 
whispers, perhaps not themselves voices of ..."
23. on Page 258:
"... and caged birds just at the hour when the lights came on, 
and ghosts came out, they saw their funhouse shadows taken by 
the village surfaces drenched in sunset, as sage, apricot, 
adobe and wine colors were infiltrated with night, and ..."
24. on Page 261:
"... standing at the window and trembling, moonlight from a 
high angle pouring over her naked back, casting on it shadows 
of her shoulder blades, like healed stumps of wings ritually 
amputated once long ago, for some transgression of the Angels' ..."
25. on Page 271:
"... by through shade leaves, breaking stems, knocking seeds 
out of colas, Brock following every move of Roscoe's stuck like 
a shadow, till they made it to the chopper and rose so swiftly, 
like a prayer to God, like a pigeon to ..."
26. on Page 278:
"... and be taken, and Brock, Brock, get a grip on yourself! 
But some other adviser lay coiled in ancient shadow, whispering 
Kick loose. Brock knew how much he wanted to, feared what would 
happen if he couldn't contain the impulse. ..."
27. on Page 282:
"... some pitiless advent. Meanwhile, landward, back up the 
long built-over dunes, across the coastal highway, the great 
Basin, intoxicated, traffic-infested, shadow-obsessed, 
extravagantly watered and irradiated, drew Zoyd away from the beaches ..."
28. on Page 291:
"... the hotel rooms with the neon outside, the passenger 
coaches with the rain against the windows, all of it just 
shadows, even if it's on safety stock in some air-conditioned 
vault that's still all it is, I let the world slip ..."
29. on Page 304:
"... seize her hair, how Zoyd had loved that hair, to guide her 
head below the roofline and into the padded shadows, though not 
exactly to notice the way her neck was bent, the anticipation, 
the long erotic baring of nape, as ..."
30. on Page 307:
"... muffled explosions ripped the night, the worst stations on 
the dial played background music, dogs contended in the beaten 
mud shadows for thirdhand remnants of road kills. In the 
morning, gonging with insomniac beer and tobacco headache, Zoyd 
stumbled to the ..."
31. on Page 323:
"... with running on their minds, cats in off of their night 
shifts edging, arching and flattening to fit inside the shadows 
they found. The woodland creatures, predators and prey, while 
not exactly gazing Bambilike at the intrusions, did remain as aware ..."
32. on Page 335:
"... at the flow of image, more out of control than ever before 
in his life, arranging clandestine meets in the shadows of 
secluded gazebos and window reveals with dishonest Tubaldetox 
attendants who would produce from beneath their browns tiny illicit LCD ..."
33. on Page 344:
"... seething blur of flame and parrot colors, sinister 
creatures, wrapped objects of unusual shape passing among them, 
bargained in the shadows. They were all yuppies on a theme 
tour, from places like Torrance and Reseda. She recognized 
Hector right away, even ..."
34. on Page 350:
"... rippled slowly, just below the human threshold for seeing 
it, arching high against the room lights, throwing lobed and 
sawtoothed shadows, while a thousand strangers were taken on 
into a continuing education in the ways of the House, and in general ..."
35. on Page 366:
"... Shade Creek, out to all hours among the milling sleepless 
of the town, along the smoky indoor promenades lit by 
shadow-patched fluorescent bulbs, across covered bridges lined 
with shops and stalls, beneath the many clockfaces beaming from 
overhead, past Thanatoid dogs ..."
36. on Page 371:
"... the light they thought they saw was coming only from 
millions of Tubes all showing the same bright colored shadows. 
One by one, as other voices joined in, the names began some 
shouted, some accompanied by spit, the old ..."
37. on Page 376:
"... lay paralyzed in her childhood sleeping bag with the duck 
decoys on the lining and saw that even in the shadows his skin 
glowed unusually white. For a second it seemed he might hold 
her in some serpent hypnosis. But she ..."