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First Love, you understand

I saw Rachel only twice in the six days before she was due to come and stay. Just as well, really: there were still some texts I had to read for the exams, and a good deal of clerking was necessary to keep The Rachel Papers up to date, what with all these new emotions to be catalogued and filed awa…

—p.176 The Rachel Papers Twenty past: 'Celia shits' (the Dean of St Patrick's) (169) by Martin Amis
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then I surfed helplessly

By now my head is lodged dourly between her shoulder and the pillow - no flair, no finessing, just cock to the grindstone. Two times two is four. Three times two, moreover, is six. Stop kissing her mouth, work on ears. Let me come. Stop all movement and kiss her meditatively, in slow motion, so tha…

—p.165 Eleven ten: The Rachel Papers, volume two (151) by Martin Amis
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I considered doubling, even squaring, this figure

On the way back I entertained Rachel and kept things going with an account of my own sexual history. Now I had had ten girls. I considered doubling, even squaring, this figure. I ended up halving it. AH five, I stressed, had been important and serious relationships. I was sorry, but I had no time f…

—p.160 Eleven ten: The Rachel Papers, volume two (151) by Martin Amis
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prelapsarian

an example of prelapsarian high spirits which as of tonight will be another experience unavailable to me

—p.158 Eleven ten: The Rachel Papers, volume two (151) by Martin Amis
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we can't give them that

To pay back Norman (prick-fees and gambling debts), I even got a job, not on the railroad, but licking plates in a Shepherd's Bush restaurant, just for a week, in the evenings, quid a night. The restaurant was such an immobile concern that all I really did was sit smoking fags in the well-equipped …

—p.146 Twenty-five of eleven: the Low (143) by Martin Amis