" First published in the Partisan Review, it includes a passage describing how various water pressures in hoses tune them like violins before noting "there is never one locust but the illusion of at least a thousand."
At one point this text describes the "urination of huge children [who] stood loosely military." The last of its four paragraphs begins by describing how "my mother, my father, my uncle, my aunt and I too lie there" before concluding that none of them will tell the narrator who he is. This work's author said he wrote it in 90 minutes as "a kind of parallel to improvisation in jazz." First published in the Partisan Review, it includes a passage describing how various water pressures in hoses tune them like violins before noting "there is never one locust but the illusion of at least a thousand." The narrator says he is "successfully disguised to himself as a child," before describing "that time of evening when people sit on their porches." It became the opening to a novel centering on the aftermath of Rufus Follett's death. For 10 points, name this James Agee piece which was set to music by Samuel Barber.
At one point this text describes the "urination of huge children [who] stood loosely military."
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 [or Knoxville: Summer 1915]