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I only dream of your ankles brushed by dark violets,of honeybees above youmurmuring into a crown. Antique queen,the night dreams on:

. . . a meadow which David had known before the coming of the motorway, where he had searched for mushrooms in previous autumns, in lost quiet golden hazes.

The man is angry, the manIs destructive, the man wants more.The woman is more, the woman is all.

Aleksei with his impossible curls so very like her own, yet less seemly perhaps. Such hair is somewhat fairy-tale in a man. Poetic.

Some boys walk by and you cry, seeing them. They feel good, they look good, they are good. Oh, they're not above peeing off a bridge, or stealing an occasional dime-store pencil sharpener; it's not that. It's just, you know, seeing them pass, that's how they'll be all their life; they'll get hit, hurt, cut, bruised, and always wonder why, why does it happen? how can it happen to them?

Il était beau d'une manière singulière, presque surnaturelle, vaguement inquiétante. Et la grâce avec laquelle il volait, outrepassant les lois de la physique - en quoi un enfant dans son genre serait-il concerné par ces lois si ennuyeuses ? - ne le rendait que plus magique.

Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. He used to entertain them at his house.

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.

The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.