When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.
Anthony PowellAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: british
- Born: December 21, 1905
- Died: March 28, 2000
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