The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine Quotes

“I’ve run entirely out of tolerance for puerile prattle.”
― P.J. Fitzsimmons, The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine

“I awake heavily, as a rule. Dreamily and just beneath the waves, like a jellyfish — sometimes rising near the surface of lucidity only to slip away again into the deeps. With each ebb and flow, reality makes itself known to me in small, genial gestures. Here’s a little sunlight diffused by the curtains, followed by a return to that dream in which I’m sleeping in a meadow surrounded by rabbits, then a church bell rings, back to the rabbits, and by and by Vickers is there, with a breakfast tray.”
― P.J. Fitzsimmons, The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine