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The drawing roomA dozen rheumy eyes track my descent into the armchair. I know they’re desperate for attention but I carefully ignore them: I’ve heard their bitter and banal remarks before. Instead, I look at the man asleep in the next chair. He moves very gently under a coarse blanket. I study his speckled pate, his delicate lips slightly apart, the purple veins twitching in his eyelids.The drawing room
Dad will come down momently. He’s still sharp, but I wonder what this place is doing to him. I wish I’d done well enough in life to provide for him properly. Before, when I’d visit him in his big, lonely house, he’d quote Keats at
by ~lordstench
At a hostel in CadizMy sheets were damp with sweat. Maybe the heat had woken me. I didn't know what time it was. My eyes attuned. I saw the profile of a man's back and legs in the opposite bunk. Then the grey shine of moonlight on his eyes.At a hostel in Cadiz
He was looking at me.
"Do you know something?" he said.
I knew a lot of things.
"What?" I said.
"The Devil is real," he said.
I exhaled. I waited to fall asleep again.
"You only see when you lose someone," he said. "You see his vast body in the sky. His wings cast a shadow over the earth. The people look so small in the shadow. But you
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- Current Residence: St. Edmund Hall
- Interests: Various, unhealthy
- Favourite poet or writer: Wodehouse or Hemingway. Well, Hemingway.
- Shell of choice: Volutospina luctator
- Skin of choice: Mink
- Favourite game: Form-filling
- Personal Quote: But they none of them know half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.
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grrr!!
stupid things...
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HAD to. HAD. You hear me?! lol
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