Sublime

He was lying with a smooth-limbed woman who had been stolen from her husband. She was now his, they were in life together.

shores of Africa.

People who are attentive to the existence of animals have refined souls.

and a semi-insane African grey parrot for a pet who uttered Swine at intervals, and who otherwise spoke only in profanities.

“Sometimes,” she said, “it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.”

yet it is precisely the fact that Earhart swerved many times in the course of becoming an aviator that makes her life so extraordinary.

The daughters he and his partner adopted are Eritrean, so he is touchy about anything having to do with Africa, particularly since a Fascist branch of his family made a fortune from the cotton trade in Asmara. He continues: “And a spoiled signora having a fling with the skipper is no different from a husband fucking the nanny. Just plain common. I’

her eyes were as dark and beautiful as a gazelle’s.