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Let there be light, he seems quietly to say.
Samantha Harvey • Orbital: Winner of the Booker Prize 2024
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can’t wear grey trousers.
James Joyce • Ulysses
‘An ingenious species,’ I said to Charlie, who made no reply.
Patrick deWitt • The Sisters Brothers
He lived alone on his large estate, was not in the service, and it was said of him that he did nothing at home but pace from one end of the room to the other, whistling, or play chess with his old footman.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
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Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs
He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. He did not know where to seek it or how, but a premonition which led him on told him that this image would, without any overt act of his, encounter him. They would meet quietly as if they had known each other and had made their
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I am the boy That can enjoy Invisibility. Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
James Joyce • Ulysses
Patrick OShaughnessy • Tweet
And no more turn aside and brood.