Plum
“This news item had come to him not as rare and refreshing fruit but more like a buffet on the base of the skull with a sock full of wet sand.”
“She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.”
“He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
March 26th, 2007 at 12:05
the second quotation reminded me of henry james’ “It affected him as the sequel of something of which he had lost the beginning” from the beast in the jungle and the libertines’ “she’s a deadringer for a feeling i used to know” from their song, begging. no connection at all, i know.