
There is a disease that affects carnations. It lies dormant in the soil for decades, and then suddenly erupts and destroys all the carnation crop over the area it infests. When this happens, there is nothing to be done but burn the crops, abandon the greenhouses, and desert the land forever. Ambush is ever the way in which ugliness destroys beauty.
On the vast plain outside the capital were countless carnation greenhouses, where workers travailed in appalling humidity amidst clouds of carcinogenic chemical fertilisers and insecticides, producing perfect white flowers to adorn the lapels of wedding guests all over Europe, to grace the statues of saints in churches, to decorate the corpses of the freshly dead, and to fill out the bouquets of hopeful lovers.
The two assassins took Anica to a derelict greenhouse long abandoned because of the disease. El Chiquitin jabbed into her neck the submachine gun that her own father had sold to El Jararca, and marched her into the building while El Guacamayo got out from the capacious trunk of the Ford Falcon his comprehensive bag of tools. Because it was growing dark he also brought in a lantern for them to work by.
Chapter 49, Another Statistic
Louis de Bernieres
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
How many authors go thro that much research to explain the background setup of a scene, instead of just saying they drove down to an abandoned warehouse, so much explanation has been put into describing why it was abandoned, and can even be interpreted as a metaphor for what will take place there.
On the vast plain outside the capital were countless carnation greenhouses, where workers travailed in appalling humidity amidst clouds of carcinogenic chemical fertilisers and insecticides, producing perfect white flowers to adorn the lapels of wedding guests all over Europe, to grace the statues of saints in churches, to decorate the corpses of the freshly dead, and to fill out the bouquets of hopeful lovers.
The two assassins took Anica to a derelict greenhouse long abandoned because of the disease. El Chiquitin jabbed into her neck the submachine gun that her own father had sold to El Jararca, and marched her into the building while El Guacamayo got out from the capacious trunk of the Ford Falcon his comprehensive bag of tools. Because it was growing dark he also brought in a lantern for them to work by.
Chapter 49, Another Statistic
Louis de Bernieres
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
How many authors go thro that much research to explain the background setup of a scene, instead of just saying they drove down to an abandoned warehouse, so much explanation has been put into describing why it was abandoned, and can even be interpreted as a metaphor for what will take place there.
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