Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment.
With the striped umbrella and the pistachio ices?
With mahogany in particular, it’s so tightly grained,
Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260
There had been a trapped thought about to emerge, something essential and unspeakable, released by the mention of those blank-faced soldiers. Now it was all gone but the image: dead boys with limbs ak...
In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. I
After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great,' he said. 'To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident to one's moment of being. There a...
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that...