This second fellow had such lucent white skin and so prominent a plate of bone in his forehead that Howard felt oppressed by the sheer mortality of the man
Howard hurried to the door, but then turned just before he opened it. ‘Oh – Keeks – ’ His face was childish, apologetic, completely inadequate. It made Kiki suddenly despair. It was a face that placed them right alongside every other middle-aged couple on the block – the raging wife, the rueful hus…
Mozart’s Requiem begins with you walking towards a huge pit.
The pit is on the other side of a precipice, which you cannot see over until you are right at its edge. Your death is awaiting you in that pit. You don’t know what it looks like or sounds like or smells like. You don’t know whether it …
Their pulvinate bellies were red satin
During their lunches he was always wonderfully scurrilous and bad tempered about his peers
