Dry tears 8


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page 67  Curiously, Ibanez also used bones for a stark description, but he was referring to the tower and the shore: He was in his solitary tower again. The gloomy fortress was no longer constructed of stone; it was formed of skulls joined like blocks of stone by a mortar of bonedust. Of bones also were the hill and the cliffs along the coast; white skeletons the lines of foam which crowned the breakers from the sea. — Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, The Dead Command

Perhaps Syd sees the flies shimmering in the same way Opal Whiteley sees the dew:   And on the grass Through which I pass Glimmer and shimmer the jewels of dew. I see them glisten as I listen To the Earth-folk talking along the way – So begins my day.
 * — Opal Whiteley, "In the Early Morning"

But Syd also sees the shimmers in a way that we don't find in the above authors: the "empty way".

 sources → Ibáñez, Vicente Blasco. The Dead Command. Trans. Frances Douglas. New York: Duffield & Company, 1919. 338. Print. http://www.archive.org/stream/deadcommand00blasiala#page/338/mode/2up Whiteley, Opal Stanley. "In the Early Morning." The Fairyland Around Us. Los Angeles: private publication, 1918. Print. http://members.efn.org/~caruso/fairyland/canvas-morning-01-center.htm