More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
As Edward slept, Louise changed the smaller dressings on his calves and at the two gaps behind his knees, the dry pink mouths that would never close.
Syphilis? She's mentioned brothels and implied his genitals are effected.
When he moved in his sleep, he was in pain. But when he truly slept, when he was as close to death as he could manage with the help of her needles, nothing hurt, he said.
Morphine is a respiratory depressant
the dropped petal of skin from his penis, the
Syphilis
his categorical denial that Edward was syphilitic.
Not sYphilis. Jaysus
