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To win at this game, you had to keep one foot in the ballroom and the other knee-deep in the sewer.
“Enid and Sylvia resumed relations stiffly, their emotional muscles pulled and aching from last night's overuse.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“Chip's sphincter had meanwhile dilated nearly to the degree of unconditional surrender.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“The traveler didn't see how such a place could exist in a world of Lithuanias and Polands. It was a testament to the insulatory effectiveness of political boundaries that power didn't simply arc across the gap between such divergent economic voltages.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“He blew his nose resoundingly. "B natural," said he, "my cold drops more than a full tone every hour. Obviously I am dying.”
― Leaven of Malice
― Leaven of Malice
“It struck him that if he could have sex with this girl for one second he could face his parents confidently, and that if he could keep on having sex with this girl once every minute for as long as his parents were in town he could survive their entire visit.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
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