The Illustrated Man: Entry 4

Quote:
"The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains."

Pg. 53

Comments:
(E) This story in the book is about a group of army men. Their plane/shuttle/ship/whatever you want to call it crashes on Venus where it never stops raining. They are one their way to a place called the Sun Doom, I guess that that's a place wear it never rains. The thing I like about this quote is how the author presents the rain pouring in different ways. It gives the beginning of the story more zest. It could've been boring with just "it was raining". This quote also shows that the rain was very heavy.