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He tried to count how many times she swallowed and he thought of the visit form the two zinc-oxide-faced men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths and the Electronic-Eyed Snake winding down into the layer upon layer of night and stone and stagnant spring water and he wanted to call out to her, how many have you taken tonight! the capsules! how many will you take later and not know? and so on, every hour! or maybe not tonight, tomorrow night! And me not sleeping tonight or tomorrow night or any night for a long while, now that this has started. And he thought of her lying on the bed with the two technicians standing straight over her, not bent with concern, but only standing straight, arms folded. And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty.

I think this captures the authors descriptiveness because he describes the feeling of apathy. He is able to accurately show what it's like for someone to feel so empty, to live a life like everyone around you is inanimate. My favorite part about this paragraph is the last sentence. This was the woman Montag was supposed to be in love with, but he didn't even know  her enough to be able to cry at her death. This paragraph shows that all he ever wanted was to have something real, he wanted to care and he wanted to love, but he couldn't because something was holding him back. It's mainly the way he describes it, it's simple, and complicated, and hard to explain, but it gets the point across and it does it beautifully. It might have something to do with the way Bradbury puts it on the paper. I've noticed that he has a lot of really long sentences, there are pauses in between, but his thoughts are never really 'finished', it almost tires the reader out and shoots them into oblivion to think about what they've just read. It works really effectively.