Walls seemed to drift into more and more corners and walls. Kathy Acker, Florida To open, up, expand, enlarge, raise eyes with long i sounds. She isn't there and the bed looks so small he wonders how the two of them had lain there. It has no sheets, and because the roof windows do not open the room is stifling. Toni Morrison, Beloved Music or voice can renew traditional forms.
Purity can revivify.
New use of an older theme comments on it. New pieces in canonical decorum or period ideas in new contexts seem fresh. Walls and ceiling alike were covered with a yellow paper which had once been very ugly, but had faded into inoffensive neutrality. Willa Cather, The Professor's House Minor humor fades next to tragedy. White mediates between warm red and cool blue.