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!”
