“…that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees”

p.169

 

This sentence’s imagery echoes three other sentences from the novel: 

 

“…the ashheaps, where small, grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.”

p.167

 

“This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat…” pp. 27-28

 

“The Buchanan’s house floated suddenly toward us through the dark, rustling trees.” P.149

 

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