To the hired help it spoke more curtly: This had better be good, you. I am a man you can bring your problems to, that suit said to the paying customer.
The part in his hair was exact, and his dark suit was sober but comforting. Ullman stood five-five, and when he moved, it was with the prissy speed that seems to be the exclusive domain of all small plump men. Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before.īut in spite of these things, it was a gay and magnificent revel. and made whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should produce in them no similar emotion and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes.
and smiled as if at their own nervousness. But when the echoes had fully ceased, a light laughter at once pervaded the assembly.
to hearken to the sound and thus the waltzers perforce ceased their evolutions and there was a brief disconcert of the whole gay company and while the chimes of the clock yet rang, it was observed that the giddiest grew pale, and the more aged and sedate passed their hands over their brows as if in confused reverie or meditation. the hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a sound which was clear and loud and deep and exceedingly musical, but of so peculiar a note and emphasis that, at each lapse of an hour, the musicians of the orchestra were constrained to pause. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang and when. It was in this apartment, also, that there stood. The Overlook and the people associated with it exist wholly within the author's imagination. Some of the most beautiful resort hotels in the world are located in Colorado, but the hotel in these pages is based on none of them.
His contribution to this book has been large, and for it, my thanks My editor on this book, as on the previous two, was Mr. This is for Joe Hill King, who shines on.
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