lotf Flashcards
the boys were a closed circuit
of sympathy with piggy outside
the enormity of the knife descending
and cutting into living flesh…
acting like
a crowd of kids!
rogers arm was conditioned
by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins
the mask was a thing on its own, behind
which jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness
maybe there is
a beast… maybe its only us
the world, that understandable
and lawful world, was slipping away.
this dreadful eruption
from an unknown world made her frantic
jack: how could we-
kill- it?
Ralph: let the fire
go then, for to-night
his head opened and
stuff came out and turned red
i should have thought
that a pack of British boys….would have been able to put up a better show than that…
ralph wept for the end of innocence,
the darkness of mans heart and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called piggy
