More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
ectomorphic build
Sounds a bit Marfans-y. Wonder if he's bendy w flat feet?
a terrible white like the rolled eyes of an attacking shark or swollen spider eggs ready to hatch, and the worst part was I’d feel them seeing me. They’d
My vision blurred and uninterpretable inkblots encroached at the edges. My head filled with damp peat and moss, and my ears rang as I sank into the bog of myself. Was I going to faint?
Heart? Aneurysm ? Maybe he does have Marfans - i think that can have cardio issues sometimes...
BOOKS ABOUT UFOS
Husker Dü? Think the frst chapter was too.
Hüsker Dü’s record New Day Rising kicked in.
Third time's the charm....
the chapters are named after Hüsker Dü songs. Awwww.
Music geek ftw. Stupid brain Lesion can make me forget how grammatical tenses work but i can stil identify songs from obscure 80s albums. Helpful.
a wee bit pathetic.
Harsh but fair. How old is Paul Tremblay? Guessing about the same
There lies madness.
Not sure why the last paragraph is about you being tired after our time hanging out.
Emotional vampire / mysrerious illness
She dubbed more tapes for me; never mixes,
Sign of reationship - mixtapes
as cursed as I was,
leather jacket.
"I love my leather jacket and i wear it all the time."
I spent more hours at home squeezed into the iron maiden (not the band) back brace
Run for your life!
D-day for me and my sea serpent backbone.
(which, in retrospect, it was).
He has cancer? Its spread to his bones and Mercy is a figment of his imagination? But gfigments cant drive or carry coffins or give you Hüsker Dü.
She's radioactive? An alien out of time? Nope. Dumb.
Maybe he's absorbing the decrepitude of the dead?
why am i guessing? I shoud just read.
The Incredible Kyphosising Creature.
Marfan syndrome,
DING Ding Ding! thats what happens when your bff trains as a dr....
The death symptom.
Your unbridled joy at the discovery was intoxicating. I couldn’t get enough of it, so I kept happily feeding you and feeding off you.
Awwwww
Quasimodo is the easiest and obvious reference point.
No, sir, I don’t like it.
Better not be an emotional vampire or ill be pissed.
a vampire
No fucking way
She’s a New England vampire.”
Phew.
We’re going to my ancestral home. I’ll introduce you to the family, then bury you in the basement and grow flowers from your corpse.”
it was disappointing to find notices for shitty, cheesy bands like Extreme next to Living Colour and the Ramones.
no recognition of who Julia was, which was our fate.
The erasure of familial and cultural memory of any one individual was simply a function of time.
she’d rightly accuse me of leaving punk for goth and tell me to go listen to Bauhaus.
Nice
“Hope is believing there’ll be another moment of joy, and despair is knowing there won’t be one more.
sweaty humpbacked boy
Greatband name
my sweaty friend?”
Bwtter band ame
Verbing a Clive Barker movie.
You are a monster.
A book is a vampire after all.
Despite all my rage im still just a rat in a cage...
I’d been suffering from consistent but manageable lower back pain for years by then.
The Vampire as a Metapohor for addiction?
painkilers are his blood - intoxicating, numbing, hypnotising, al consuming. Mythic in the capacity of need for them, deadly if taken too far
only had one-third the allotment of functioning discs.
Ive had two vertabrae fuserd and thats bad enoigh. Next to migraine, backain is classes xas the most debilitating pain in recent researh.
Manageable? How, and using what as painkillers?
Yeah that
oh that Polaroid’s goddamn Trent Reznorian whir.
You snap me closer to God.
Without missing a beat, Mercy added, “No one will find either of us.”
H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shunned House,”
<3
INTERVIEW(ED) BY THE VAMPIRE
Bwahahaha
amending ‘ass’ onto the ends of words.
The Ass version of Metallica's Uh speak
Buffalo Tom.
<3<3 Big Red Letter Day
Each song title was named after famous doomed women in literature.
Id buy that
Fred Durst.
Fred Durst was a c**t & broke my little finger (by accidenT) but didnt even apologise.
lay your love life lore on me.”
Roachford? ROACHFORD? I wouldnt fess up to that either
Head Full of Philip Glass. Great band name.
My joke
I am losing you and the loss is as aching and delicious and bottomless and as addictive as the gain, as the replacing.
She had lung cancer.
Vampirism - addiction
(but an anti–Peter Parker, one who husked both Uncle Ben and Aunt May),
