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