The Pedestrian

Descriptions/Imagery
1. "...frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar."
2. "...westerly direction toward the hidden sea."
3. "...good crystal forest in the air; it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside."
4. "...all the branches filled with invisible snow."
5. "...picking up a leaf as he passed, examining its skeletal pattern..."

Examples of Figurative Language
1. "...tomb-like building was still open..."
2. "...ceaseless jockeying for position as the scarab-beetles a fain incense puttering from their exhausts..."
3. "...these highways, too, were like streams in a dry season, all stone and bed and moon radiance."
4. " The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest."
5. "...people sat like the dead, the grey or multicolored lights touching their faces..."