Status Updates From Love

If I’m in a book club with anyone I’m sorry for being so negligent I just need my hit of Angie before I can read anything else

'He lived at a conscious pitch of melodrama; once filling out a form for some job or another he never achieved, he wrote against the space marked INTERESTS, the two words, sex and death.'

'Her brother-in-law gave her a set of pornographic photos... she examined the pictures with a certain impersonal curiosity... a young woman, the principle actress (torso and legs sheathed in black leather, sex exposed) eyed the camera indifferently... so that these stark juxtapositions of genitalia, the antithesis of the erotic, were cold as Russia when nights are coldest there.'

'He liked organising parties for he always hoped something terrible would happen when so many people intersected upon one another. He was, as usual, in a suppressed state of nervous excitement.'