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‘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
... See moreSusie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Not only was he not yet dead, he was well into having stepped up and closed in on foreplay predations.
Anna Burns • Milkman
He wrote of Neal as a “child of the rainbow” who bore his torment in his agonised cock.
Jack Kerouac • On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
I no longer look like Piranesi. There are no coral beads or fishbones in my hair. My hair is clean and cut and styled. I am clean-shaven. I wear the clothes that were brought to me out of the storage in which Matthew Rose Sorensen’s sisters had placed them. Rose Sorensen had a great number of clothes, all meticulously cared for. He had more than a
... See moreSusanna Clarke • Piranesi
Whatever was not problematical and suspected about this young man – for example, a certain showiness as to foreign ideas, and a disposition to unsettle what had been settled and forgotten by his elders – was positively unwelcome to a physician whose standing had been fixed thirty years before by a treatise on Meningitis, of which at least one copy
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
With a touch that was so frail that he could hardly feel it, she led him beside the open coffin. He looked down. He looked until his eyes cleared, and then he started back in shock. The body that he saw seemed that of a stranger; it was shrunken and tiny, and its face was like a thin brown-paper mask, with black deep depressions where the eyes shou
... See moreJohn McGahern • Stoner
“The unknown will always be boundless,”