"Tantlatch drummed with his knuckles on a spear-heft across his knees, and gazed idly along the path of a sun-ray which pierced a lacing-hole and flung"
"Nor would he sniff at himself again, for, incredibly, his native odor had peeled away the perfume that masked it; had slowly burned through the potent excess of patchouli like a sun-ray blazing its way through a purple fog, and now, after less than an hour of suppression, the goat gas-that chloride compound of barnyard and bedroom-was boiling again, filling the grotto with a sleazy vapor, a steam to press a rooster's pants."
"Yet it was a mote in the sun-ray compared to the empire of the Spirit of the Void."