TBC

Question 1

i could see the dark leonine shape of his head

Question 2

he seemed to me like a lily

Question 3

eyes that always disturbed me by their absolute absence of light, seemed to me like a mask

Question 4

i saw him watching me in the gilded mirrors with the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horse flesh

Question 5

impersonal arousal…at the same time repugnance

Question 6

no title at all on the spine

Answer 6

her cunt a split fig

Question 7

my little nun has found the prayerbooks, has she?

Answer 7

have the nasty pictures scared baby?

Question 8

a dozen husbands impales a dozen brides

Answer 8

it must have been my innocence that captivated him

Question 9

i was not afraid of him; but of myself

Answer 9

potentiality for corruption

Question 10

my dark newborn curiousity

Answer 10

eve and pandora possibly

Question 11

a long, a winding corridor

Question 12

the castle was adrift

Question 13

and still i felt no fear

Answer 13

my mothers spirit drove me on

Question 14

the more i scrubbed the key, the more vivid grew the stain

Question 15

the atrocious loneliness of that monster

Question 16

i knew i had behaved exactly according to his desires

Question 17

the marquis stood transfixed…at a loss

Answer 17

the puppet master, open-mouthed, wide eyed…saw his dolls break free of their strings

Question 18

wild thing as my mother

Answer 18

raised my fathers gun…and put a single irreproachable bullet through my husbands head

Question 19

the castle is now a school for the blind