Creeping Figs

[Keith McMullen]

He woke up, and sunlight hit his face filtered through a 'Ficus  
pumila' hanging in the window. What's so difficult about this?


On Sep 17, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Steven wrote:

	He's forced the 'creeping' from the fig to attach itself to the  
sunlight coming slowly, etc.  A tad awkward to read but very dense  
imagery.


On Sep 16, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Carvill John wrote:

> "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted  
> awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window,  
> with a squadron of blue jays..." etc.
>
> Ok, leaving everything else aside, does that 'in sunlight through'  
> strike anyone else as slightly jarring, as if we'd expect something  
> else between 'sunlight' and 'through'? Some variant on, say, 'in  
> sunlight that', I dunno, 'shone through', 'filtered through'.......?
>