Sounds Carried Farther

         The sun finally died in beauty, flinging out it's crimson flames, which cast their reflection on the faces of passers-by, giving them a strangely feverish look. The darkness of the trees became deeper. You could hear the Seine flowing. Sounds carried farther, and people in their beds could feel, as they did every night, the vibration of the ground as buses rolled past.

Georges Simenon
L'Enterrement De Monsieur Bouvet
1955