I've remembered part of this quote for 18 years and finally tonight put together what it came from. I dont recall how I came to possess the book, Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone, but I recall it was brand new when I read it.
"On the drive they passed a burning cane field and Indian cattle grazing under swarms of flies among ruined vines. The earth was blood red, the vegetation fleshy. Everything was death and fecundity."
It was the perfect words twisted into another meaning. Death and fecundity are used in biology to describe life cycles. In reality I think everything
is death
or fecundity, but Stone wrote what he meant. Ultimately his book
Dog Soldiers was better, but never more elegant than this..
I've remembered part of this quote for 18 years and finally tonight put together what it came from. I dont recall how I came to possess the book, Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone, but I recall it was brand new when I read it.
