标题: 《Erdis Cliff 》作者：- Richard H. Shaver【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-15 20:10 标题: 《Erdis Cliff 》作者：- Richard H. Shaver【EPUB】 Erdis Cliff By Richard S. Shaver Time is like a book and its leaves are worlds very close to each other and yet…distantbeyond imagination. An ANN/A Preservation Edition. Notes SLOWLY the clouds came dawn rose above the jagged outline of Erdis’ cliff-edge. The eye fleddown the sheer clean rock face of the cliff to come softly to rest among the driftingrising morning mists in the small sweet valley at the foot. Ancient and virgin those gigantic trees unknowing mortal man. Clean and happy those smalllaughing streams meeting there beneath the glittering arc of the irridescent bridge of glassthat swept in one long material rainbow of poetry made into actual mass but mass withoutessential solidity shimmering and fragile as air sweeping up and up from the misted greenfloor of the valley to plunge into the mid-face of the cliff. There where the rainbow bridge met the raw face of the rock a great stone beast-face leeredand into the dark mouth of that giant sculpture the glassy shimmer thrust stopped at last bythe great bronze halves of a circular doorway. One of those halves of heavy ancient metal hung open and in the gloomy opening a tiny figurestood the morning breeze stirring timidly about the smooth curves of her body. Nearer the eyeof view and nearer and that figure by some magic becomes intense. The darkling sweep of herhair above the wide white brow the deep thoughtful eyes black mystery below the strongcheekbones balancing the raven’s-wing touch of her upsweeping