Swallows flew, the scythes of their wings mowing the light. - Patrick White

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Swallows flew, the scythes of their wings mowing the light.

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Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian novelist and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Birth Name: Patrick Victor Martindale White
Alternative Names: Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray
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For several hours we were thrown and battered — till suddenly calm felt — the calmest calm I have ever experienced at sea. God had willed us to enter the eye — you know about it? the still centre of the storm — where we lay at rest — surrounded by hundreds of seabirds, also resting on the water.

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