Spreading the spirit of evenhanded inquiry since 1948. The smell of Grandmother’s medicated cigarettes and her furniture that smelled of beeswax, and her old-fashioned perfume, Orange Flower. palehorseriderbook Follow 600 posts 1,841 followers 1,703 following Mark Jacobson Book Author of William Cooper bio, Pale Horse Rider, also American Gangster, Gojiro, The Lampshade. The first line is 'Pale horse, pale rider, done taken my lover away,' and the song supposedy goes on to list the various other people. The clothes were not even romantic looking, but merely most terribly out of fashion, and the whole affair was associated, in the minds of the little girls, with dead things: Rider' mentions an old Negro spiritual with the same name.

There was a kind of faded merriment in the background, with its vase of flowers and draped velvet curtains, the kind of vase and the kind of curtains no one would have anymore. Pale Horse, Pale Rider Katherine Anne Porter 3.99 4,006 ratings597 reviews Want to read Kindle 9.99 Rate this book First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author’s reputation as a master of short fiction. Who looked at the picture said, “How lovely” and why everyone who had known her thought her so beautiful and charming. Quite often they wondered why every older person. It was a reckless indifferent smile, rather disturbing to her nieces Maria and Miranda. She sat thus, forever in the pose of being photographed.Ī motionless image in her dark walnut frame with silver oak leaves in the corners, her smiling gray eyes following one about the room. Lying at ease in the folds of her flounced skirt which gathered around to a bustle. SHE was a spirited-looking young woman, with dark curly hair cropped and parted on the side, a short oval face with straight eyebrows, and a large curved mouth.Ī round white collar rose from the neck of her tightly buttoned black basque, and round white caffs set off lazy hands with dimples in them. In Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Porter explores the pervasive fear of death that plagues humankind.

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