Sublime

Atalantas.

the terror of the normal.

oriel.

‘It’s beyond everything. Nothing at all that I know touches it.’ ‘For sheer terror?’ I remember asking. He seemed to say it wasn’t so simple as that; to be really at a loss how to qualify it. He passed his hand over his eyes, made a little wincing grimace. ‘For dreadful – dreadfulness!’ ‘Oh how delicious!’ cried one of the women. He took no notice

Anthony Trollope.

Quite a strange man, thought James, watching him go – but what a relief to discover he still contained the capacity to be taken by surprise.

Lars Tunbj

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