Sublime

‘Did you take it?’ said James, looking at the children one after the other. Abruptly he seemed remote and stern, and desirable because of this; so Thomas turned away in shame.

This is what happens to a man who was made for a great love and not a suit when he does not feel the love. He closes in. He becomes weary. On the bus he looked out of the top-deck windows and saw less of life and felt less sturdy, less sexy, less rich. He was beginning to forget his magnificence. A darkness was coming down over his face like the pu

I am the boy That can enjoy Invisibility. Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.

ebullience

obdurate.

Safetyfirst

That’s writing for you,’ he said, ‘nothing but spoiling things by touching them.’