Occurrences of the word 'light' in VL

R. Fiero rfiero at pophost.com
Mon Apr 19 22:50:07 CDT 2004


There are 121 occurrences of the word 'light' in VL.

Skipping the bulk of them for brevity:

1. on Page 3:
"... the ocean, landing and taking off again one by one, each 
bearing a message for him, but none of whom, light pulsing in 
their wings, he could ever quite get to in time. He understood 
it to be another deep nudge ..."
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118. on Page 379:
"... At last he saw the lights in the distance, like running 
lights of a ship out on the sea ... there was nothing else in the ..."
119. on Page 381:
"... on below across the boundless twilit high plain, and she 
was watching him now with newly cleansed attention, her 
light-bearing hair, against the simplicity out the window, a 
fractal halo of complications that might go on forever ... one ..."
120. on Page 383:
"... one, out in a deserted place, but dare inside only as far 
as the first turnings and loss of outdoor light. And then all 
the gateways to Hell were finally lost to sight, surviving only 
in local tales handed down the ..."
121. on Page 384:
"... dreaming, her flirting more obvious then she'd wake, alert 
to some step in the woods, some brief bloom of light in the 
sky, back and forth for a while between Brock ..." 




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