They charge, recharge, and all along the sea / They drive, and squander the huge Belgian fleet

Ilse Aichinger is a master of the “unpretended language.” Her works are marked by their unobtrusiveness and clarity.

The boy ululated as he fell to the ground and smashed his arm.

For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare.