"On a riverbank in the cool of a summer evening two women struggle under
a shower of silvery blue. They never expected to see each other again in
this world and at that moment couldn t care less. But there on a summer
night surrounded by blue fern they did something together appropriately
and well. A pateroller passing would have sniggered to see two throwaway
people, two lawless outlaws a slave and a barefoot white woman with
unpinned hair wrapping a ten-minute-old baby in the rags they wore. But
no pateroller came and no preacher. The water sucked and swallowed
itself beneath them. There was nothing to disturb them at their work. So
they did it appropriately well."
Morrison, Tony (1987), Beloved (New York:
Vintage).
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