With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatter and charcoal ruins of history. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. ![]() In this example, Lee uses various forms of imagery, including visual and tactile. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’ clock naps, and by nightfall were like stiff teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Somehow, it was hotter then a black dog suffered on a summer’s day bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. ![]() ![]() Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.
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