In the field of books br where people have no faces, br I entered innocently br to look among the pages. br They smacked gum on and on and on br all the dizzy dirty blonde day long. br There were about two hundred of them. br Maybe they were jaded. br Silas said it was as pretty as apples, br and they were kindly nice to me at first br licking my face with golden leaves, br and it was so seductively maddening br that I had to throw them in the fire br before they ate me.