Dark Things I Adore
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but as a much younger man. Barely more than a boy. It was decades ago; many bottles of wine and lovers and lines of cocaine and gallery showings and awards and lectures and semesters ago.
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the way her hair flares in the sun plunges me into wild, raw infatuation, that just-born kind of infatuation you feel at the beginning of every one of your own very best love stories.
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enrobed in layer upon layer of color and beauty.
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Designed. His clothing, his home, his reputation, his life. He has crafted it all with an almost religious egotism with himself at its center, his own god, his own theology. He is that pretentious
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Once or twice he put a hand on her shoulder and gave her a generous smile, which Tanya absorbed into her tense body like a muscle relaxer.
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It’s a closed system. Coral and Mantis are our free radicals. I imagine there’s a bond in that, too.