BC CRAM Flashcards
“I lay awake in a tender,
delicious ecstasy of excitement”
“great pistons
ceaselessly thrusting”
“scarlet, palpitating
core”
“a dozen husbands
impaled a dozen brides”
“I had been infinitely dishevelled
by the loss of my virginity”
“my eagle-featured,
indomitable mother”
“her black skirts tucked up
around her waist so she could ride hard and fast”
“great battering
and pounding at the gate”
“without a moment’s hesitation”, “she raised my father’s gun…
put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband’s head”
“I was innocent
but not naive”
“Have the nasty pictures
scared baby?”
“the assessing eye
of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh”
“deliberately coarse,
vulgar” (Marquis)
“impotent
at the last”
“strange, heavy
almost waxen face”
“his monstrous
presence”
“into marriage,
into exile”
“amniotic
salinity”
“subterranean
privacy”
“she was pierced,
not by one but by a hundred spikes”
“ill-lit”, “what a dim,
lugubrious light”
“slight, stooping
figure” (piano tuner)
“leonine
apparition”
“she found his bewildering difference from herself
almost intolerable; its presence choked her”
“all the natural laws of the world
were held in suspension” (Lyon)
“it was no longer a lion
in her arms but a man”
“sunless, featureless
landscape” (Tiger)
“I struck The Beast
to the heart!”
“each stroke of his tongue
ripped off skin after successive skin”
“I shrugged the drops
off my beautiful fur”
“Erl-King will
do you grievous harm”
“his white, pointed teeth
with the spittle gleaming on them”
“the tender butcher…
skin the rabbit, he says”
“with hands gentle as rain,
I shall strangle him”
“the child of
his desire”
“the girl picks a rose; pricks her finger;
bleeds; screams; falls”
“thrust his virile member
into the dead girl”
“ornate
and rotting”
“velvet curtains, “white
hands” and “black satin”
“mortal
parcel”
“desires
flesh”
“I shall wait for you
in my bride’s dress in the dark”
Protected by “the special
quality of virginity”
“the most rational
mode of transport in the world”
“a fundamental disbelief in
what he sees before him sustains him”
Catafalque black paper, not ebony,
“as in the theatre”
“though he feels unease,
he cannot feel terror”
“on Walpurgisnacht the Devil
holds picnics in the graveyards and invites the witches”
“began to struggle, squawking
and shrieking like a thing possessed”
“she
prospered”
“carnivore
incarnate”
“the eyes alone unchanged
by metamorphosis”
“ogres that will grill
babies upon gridirons”
“the night of the solstice,
the hinge of the year where things do not fit together as well as they should”
“pious
old woman”
“invisible pentacle
of her own virginity”
“sealed
vessel”
“she knew she was
nobody’s meat”
“immaculate flesh
to preserve her own life”
“Nothing about her is human
except that she is not a wolf”
“aborted
transformation”
“gathered in the church
to chant a litany”, “arsenal”
