A striking triologism for a phrase which arrests and compresses time, as indeed, Heaney’s does. Â
‘… monsters that stalk the night, in Seamus Heaney’s time-shrinking phrase, ‘as a kind of dog-breath in the dark’.Â
Source: Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst: An unfinished history (London: Harper Press, 2009), p. 136
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