Life of Pi
It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, thought it seemed to get smaller as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head. You must imagine a hot and humid place, bathed in sunshine and bright...
Eleanor Rigby
The print on the elevator's DOOR CLOSE button was almost worn off. I pointed it out to Mother and said, "I bet there are a few psychiatrists in this building." "What makes you say that?" "Look at the button." "So?" "In the elevator industry, a DOOR CLOSE button is...
Television
I smiled at her, surprised, flattered, befuddled, slid my cup and my little coffee pot toward my end of the table, pulled my plate of cheese and meats toward me to give her more room. I was just about to attack my soft-boiled egg, but there was no hurry, no hurry....
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
...people are different from animals because they can have pictures on the screens in their heads of things which they are not looking at. They can have pictures of someone in another room. Or they can have a picture of what is going to happen tomorrow. Or they can...
Television
The television was showing the same American series we ourselves were watching in the Schweinfurth's living room, such that, as I stood at the window, the image and the sound of the American series reached me simultaneously, but from two different sources,...