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A strange, wet sound came from under the sheet, followed by a snap, like a bone breaking. The sheet fluttered. “What’s that?” asked one. “Just the body settling,” claimed another. “It didn’t sound that way to me,” said the first.
Approaching Classic Evenson territory here
“Things escape him? she thought, waiting in the kitchen for him to finish dressing. Is it catching? she wondered. Apparently things were beginning to escape her as well.”
― The Open Curtain
― The Open Curtain
“He knew how to get her into a discussion, the conversation building quickly into an attack.
"You don't know when to stop," she would tell him, eyes burning.
"I know when to stop," he claimed. "I just never stop there.”
― The Open Curtain
"You don't know when to stop," she would tell him, eyes burning.
"I know when to stop," he claimed. "I just never stop there.”
― The Open Curtain
“It was all a mistake, but what else was there for her? It was meant to happen, it had to happen, it had happened. She had set something in motion and now there was no stopping it.”
― The Open Curtain
― The Open Curtain
“But the charge of boredom is really hypocritical. There is, in a sense, no such thing as boredom. Boredom is only another name for a certain species of frustration.”
― Notes on ‘Camp’
― Notes on ‘Camp’
“Or perhaps, as a perversion of the temple ritual, it was an attempt to defile, an attempt to close the curtain between God and this Earth, a gesture toward apocalypse.”
― The Open Curtain
― The Open Curtain
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