Steven Millhauser: "Dan sekali lagi salju turun, dan sekali lagi matah...

"Dan sekali lagi salju turun, dan sekali lagi matahari terbit. Di pagi hari dalam perjalanan ke stasiun Franklin menghitung manusia salju baru yang bermunculan secara misterius semalam atau yang sudah tua yang terserang penyakit dan terbelah pecah-sebuah kepala di sini, tubuh yang rusak dan tiga bongkahan batu bara di sana-dan suatu hari dia mendongak dari selembar kertas beras berwarna salju dan tahu dia sudah selesai. Itu sesederhana itu: Anda membungkuk pekerjaan Anda malam demi malam, dan suatu hari Anda selesai. Salju masih tergeletak di garis-garis kotor di tanah tetapi sekelompok bunga kuning-hijau tergantung dari maple gula."

--- Steven Millhauser

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And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that had sprung up mysteriously overnight or the old ones that had been stricken with disease and lay cracked apart-a head here, a broken body and three lumps of coal there-and one day he looked up from a piece of snow-colored rice paper and knew he was done. It was as simple as that: you bent over your work night after night, and one day you were done. Snow still lay in dirty streaks on the ground but clusters of yellow-green flowers hung from the sugar maples.