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Yes, she’ll have lit herself a cigarette once she had her slippers on, at the latest. So as she pats the dog’s head in the passage, quietly closing the bedroom door behind her, the air smells of fresh smoke. A little later the smell of
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“The tense of the body is the present indicative; but the soul has a memory and a present and a future. I have conceived some extremely recondite pains for Mr. Trellis. I will pierce him with a pluperfect.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
“For all things change, making way for each other”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
“Trellis wants his salutary book to be read by all. He realizes that purely a moralizing tract would not reach the public. Therefore he is putting plenty of smut into his book.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
“Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
The fiction of Rafael Alvarez
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Group dedicated to the short stories and other writings of Baltimore-born author Rafael Alvarez [05.24.58] known collectively as the "The Holy Land" t ...more
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