The usually gloomy and provincial streets blazed with electric lights strung on eaves and curving roofs; red stars and neon signs shone against the night sky; big, pumpkin-shaped .
It was a pumpkin-shaped bundle of coarse brown cloth some 5 ft.
And the celebrated pumpkin was not a pumpkin at all but Chambers' own demented fantasy of "a pumpkin-shaped idol (Fate)," a sort of vegetable womb by which Chambers was able to .