Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

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OBLIVION (novel excerpt)
In August came the unremitting thudding—
straw was placed under the trees, but the
apples were too heavy, too ripe, and the
straw did not soften the blow completely;
apples fell, during the day the sound was
muffled, but at night it seemed that a
chronometer was beating in the garden,
that a different time was beginning, the
time of ripeness.