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Ice, why hollow? – She wrote, from quibble to pun. And back again. Just for fun. This is how she remembered it, in hospital, drifting in and out of consciousness, under the influence, it seems, of sister morphine: As a special treat, after dinner, she was allowed to disturb her grandfather up in his observatory. …
In the room where no one came dreaming of Michelangelo there were four different videos that could be watched from low lying seats covered in felt. As I sat down to watch, I kept looking across at the others and glimpsing, through foliage, a man crawling around in a pig mask. Nonetheless, the bluesman was …
There is no world for me outside the walls of Verona, except purgatory, torture and hell itself. The rider came in the middle of the storm. He found them sheltering from the rain in the old trullo at the edge of the olive field that once did belong to her da. As he rang out …
In the field behind the church two peasants were digging a ditch. One of the peasants wanted to have a joke. “Here, boy with no shoes,” he cried. The peasant held up the skull. It had no eyes or teeth. The boy with no shoes turned tail and ran all the way home. For two …
I feel bad about letting you down and leaving you in the lurch like this. P.S. Let me know if you want anything on the inside. In Name of the Heel Arturo’s father had two watches, the one he usually wore on his wrist, and the other he kept in a bowl with loose change …
“Well,” said the young boy. “There is a difference, at least in my mind. Chance is something random. Coincidence, on the other hand, is when we see more than meets the eye.” “What does your aunt think?” “Auntie thinks I’m splitting hairs. What do you think, papa?” “I agree with your aunt.” “Because she’s much …
The prince decrees that all citizens of (Q) must be kept in a permanent state of arousal. Punishment can only ever be given in role-play and utilising a variety of royally patented sex toys; power brokers and rebels alike will be mocked or pilloried only for their failure to arouse and be aroused. After his …
The novel in 28 chapters was set in a fictional – one assumes – South American country. A series of murders take place among the high-ranking officials of the government. The protagonist, a detective named Q ordered to investigate the murders can find no solution to the crimes… Quibbling it may be, but it’s hard …
You may well ask why I look to the horizon when my little ship is adrift in the gutter. When Achille Lombardo told me he had started doing English lessons, I laughed my head off. If I was the worst in the class at school, Achille Lombardo was not far behind. “Achille,” I said. “Remember …
Of course, they did not know they were going to become lovers. It seemed to come off quite naturally, without inhibition, one day when they were on their way to the beach… They drove along the coast road, past villas and restaurants on the outskirts of the town. At length they came to a barrier. …