![]() It seemed safer to linger in the darkness behind his lids, for his head felt as if it had split from side to side…. In these lines from 24 Hours (2000), Ellis wakes up with a hangover:Įllis did not open his eyes. ![]() She described physical sensations brilliantly. All the same, still whistling and hissing to himself, reminding himself how real he was, then nodding and muttering agreement with himself, Roland stepped forward yet again, before pausing and groping backward. Squinting down in its general direction, he found he could not even see his nose. He could not see an inch beyond his nose. The feeling he had been trying to create – the feeling that the day was just another day – began to shiver out of line. A few lines from Alchemy (2004):Ĭertainly the sound of her sadness had spread itself backward and forward through time. ![]() Margaret Mahy could write emotions like sadness, fear, the desperateness of courage, so that you felt them as you read. ![]() New Zealand writer Margaret Mahy died on Monday, July 23. ![]()
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