a black and rotten heart
“What began the afternoon as a piece of tree ended it as the rib of a ship
It was backbreaking work and subject to cruel disappointment. The crosscuts might reveal a black and rotten heart. The old sayings about men and women, that their hearts were black or rotten, come from this disappointment and exhaustion.”
—William Bryant Logan, Oak: The Frame of Civilization, 2005.
It was backbreaking work and subject to cruel disappointment. The crosscuts might reveal a black and rotten heart. The old sayings about men and women, that their hearts were black or rotten, come from this disappointment and exhaustion.”
—William Bryant Logan, Oak: The Frame of Civilization, 2005.