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Donna Tartt: "Cahaya api memperbesar bayangan kami, memantulkan perak,...

"Cahaya api memperbesar bayangan kami, memantulkan perak, berkedip tinggi di atas dinding; pantulannya menderu oranye di kaca jendela seolah-olah sebuah kota terbakar di luar. Deru api seperti kawanan burung, terperangkap dan dipukul dalam angin puyuh di dekat langit-langit. Dan saya sama sekali tidak akan terkejut jika meja perjamuan mahoni panjang, terbungkus linen, sarat dengan porselen dan lilin serta buah-buahan dan bunga, lenyap begitu saja ke udara tipis, seperti peti mati ajaib dalam cerita peri."

--- Donna Tartt

Versi Bahasa Inggris

The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.