Status Updates From Eustace Chisholm and the Works

"he was as anxious to know the end of the Daniel-Amos story as a depraved inveterate novel-reader—"

Lmao, thanks for the callout.

He *really* likes the word paroxysm.

People complaining about catty gays in other books would have an apoplexy reading this. God, are these characters terrible! I'm having a blast.

Well, he did not calm down.

"Since I have lost all shame here in Mississippi and since you never had any, and I know you blab everything the minute you hear it, for though you are people say brilliant, you are the lowest species of human being ever crawled over earth, and you will admit this, for if there is one thing in you that distinguishes you from slime it is you are honest, this makes you, I imagine, a man."

Okay, okay, calm down!

“I have to say it all over again,” Carla said to Clayton, but her voice easily carried to the front room. “Never saw such a beautiful boy outside of pictures.”
“It won’t last,” Clayton said in a whisper that did not carry.
“Why not?” Carla wondered.
“Why, he’ll die.”