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”
