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Show 29 "ROLL THE STONE!" It stirred, it groaned, it grated, it moved; and with a slow grinding, as of wrathful relief, began to It had waited ages to fall, and now was slow in lean. starting. Then, as if suddenly instinct \'li th life, it leaped hurtingly down to alight on the steep incline, to plunge into the lofty leaning crag below. The crag thundered into atoms. A wave of air--a splitting shock! Dust shrouded the sunset red of shaking rims; dust shrouded Tull as he fell on his knees with uplifted Shafts and monuments and sections of wall fell arms. majestically. From the depths The roar. outlet Also, Whipple in Grey's also for its rumbling24 notes books that found there rose a long-drawn to Deception Pass closed forever. one a moral finds in much Romantic naivety, in folk and the accounts lack of moral finds in much modern literature. way that put it in a contrary to the Stevenson cript of life, to be simplification of Grey realist, the would novel Robert surely judged by its exactitude; some side or point of simplicity.,,25 life, were only sometimes significant, but they account 24Grey, n.d.), p. Riders of the PurEle 19printed., New agk or: a stand or Grey's simplicities by its significant Brothers, en- "trans a but to Louis have is not fall & is enduring appeal when placed beside the turgid one dorsed: it and innocence That epics. literature, symbolism, the contrived decadence, thrust an (New York: Walter J. for much Harper Black, 280. 25Robert Louis stevenson, "A Humble Remonstrance," Portraits (New York: Scribner's, 1909), For-my discussion of Grey as a Romanticist, I p. 357. have also dra\ffi upon Richard Chase's definition of Roman ticism in The American Novel and Its Tradition (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & cO:; 1957), Chapter 1. in Hemories and |
