By admin, 25 November, 2023

They were beyond the present$$$ outside time$$$ with no memories and no future. There was nothing but obliterating sensation$$$ thrilling and swelling$$$ and the sound of fabric on fabric and skin on fabric as their limbs slid across each other in this restless$$$ sensuous wrestling. ... They moved closer$$$ deeper and then$$$ for seconds on end$$$ everything stopped. Instead of an ecstatic frenzy$$$ there was stillness.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

When the wounded were screaming$$$ you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere$$$ of an ordinary life$$$ of a family line$$$ connection. All around him$$$ men were walking silently with their thoughts$$$ reforming their lives$$$ making resolutions. If I ever get out of this lot... They could never be counted$$$ the dreamed-up children$$$ mentally conceived on the walk into Dunkirk$$$ and later made flesh.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

These memories sustained him$$$ but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time$$$ as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison$$$ before the war$$$ before the sight of a corpse became a banality.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen$$$ Dickens$$$ Conrad$$$ all in the library downstairs$$$ in complete sets. How had that pursuit$$$ reading the novels that others took as their leisure$$$ let her think she was superior to anyone else?

By admin, 25 November, 2023

The childhood of a spoiled prince could be framed within half a page$$$ a moonlit dash through sleepy villages was one rhythmically emphatic sentence$$$ falling in love could be achieved in a single word - a glance. The pages of a recently finished story seemed to vibrate in her hand with all the life they contained.