A first selection of favourite passages from this wonderful book:



He clothed himself in this strong word each. 

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Before this time Geryon had not lived nights just days and their red intervals. 

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Facts are bigger in the dark.


from "II. Each"

...said his motherrhinestoning past on her way to the door. She had all her breasts on this evening.
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She was standing before him nowsmiling hard and rummaging in his face with her eyes.
from "III. Rhinestones"

They grinned at each other as night climbed ashore.
from "IV. Tuesday"

Then he met Herakles and all the kingdoms of his life shifted down a few notches.They were two superior eelsat the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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The world poured back and forth between their eyes once or twice.
from "VII. Change"

Her voice drew a circlearound all the years he had spent in this room.
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A pure bold longing to be gone filled him.
from "IX. Space and Time"

He understood that people needacts of attention from one another, does it really matter which acts?
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His voice washedGeryon open.
from "X. Sex Questions"

He could feel the house of sleepersaround him like loaves on shelves.
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...and a fragment of human voice tore itself out and came past, it seemedalready long ago, trailinga bad dust of its dream which touched his skin.
from "XII. Lava"

As in childhood we live sweeping close to the sky and now, what dawn is this.
from "XVI. Grooming"






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