“It was a smell like mortuary flowers. I hear that music. I hear what you tell me, and half what you don't tell me. Maybe I've always dreamt about such carnivals, and was just waiting for it to come sols to see it once, and nod. Now, that tent show plays my bones like a marimba.
'My skeleton knows.
'It tells me.
'I tell you.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
'My skeleton knows.
'It tells me.
'I tell you.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“So from one man here, one man there, walking as swift as his oily glances, it became scuttles of dogmen begging gifts of trouble, pandering misery, seeking under carpets for centipede treads, watchful of night sweats, harkening by all bedroom doors to hear men twist basting themselves with remorse and warm-water dreams.”
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