Archive for April, 2006

Amis on Looking at Things

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

The next morning: “Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider crab on the tarry shingle of [...]

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Amis on Too Many

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Has anyone said it better than my dear friend Kingers? “He stood brooding by his bed. His face was heavy, as if little bags of sand had been painlessly sewn into various parts of it, dragging the features away from the bones, if he still had bones in his face. Suddenly feeling worse, he heaved [...]

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