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“For imagine having somebody beside you day and night loving you and forgiving you and petting you forever and ever, that must be a better description of hell than being put into a boiling lake or cauldron of ice that burnt you black.”

he slashed then his wicked arms which had enjoyed the weight of the gas-pump attendant, and when these bled to his satisfaction he slashed his feet and their veins for having admired the naked feet of Sidney De Lakes, and then he slashed the flesh over his heart for, despite all his warnings to his heart, it had continued to love and adore his arch-enemy.

How many epithets can you use for one single character?
James Purdy: Yes.

That sentence went places.

For imagine having somebody beside you day and night loving you and forgiving you and petting you forever and ever, that must be a better description of hell than being put into a boiling lake or cauldron of ice that burnt you black. So reckoned the scissors-grinder.