“A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud.”
“Her bare feet land with light thuds like rain on stones.”
“Okay. Sometimes the truth just lands at your feet in a lump, like a big, dead bird falling out of the sky. No warning...I stand there under the branches of the Honesty Tree. More dead birds of truth fall down all around me.”
“My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.”
“The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the night sky; raindrops glowed orange as they fell towards the earth.”
“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.”