Behind them, again, was the grey-green garden, and among the pear-shaped leaves of the escallonia fishing-boats seemed caught and suspended.

I sure hope he don't get hisself hurt one of these days, running his mouth thataway.

5208 jāraṇa- n. 'causing decay, condiment, oxydizing' W. [√JR̥̄] Or. jāraṇa 'digesting, oxydizing'; G. jāraṇ m. 'incantations to produce disease or death'

I cannot now say whether the anemia of that background figure, its apparitional hyalescence, as it were, belongs to the faded memory or to the remembered object itself.