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@ -- I'll take this one.
7:18 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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He puts his boot on what he had spat, wiping his sole along it and bends, showing a rawskinned crown, scantily haired.
7:18 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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comes out and his unshaven reddened face, coughing. He rakes his throat rudely, pukes phlegm on the floor.
7:18 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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Phlegmy coughs shake the air of the bookshop, bulging out the dingy curtains. The shopman's uncombed grey head
7:18 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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hugging them against his unbuttoned waistcoat and bearing them off behind the dingy curtain.
7:18 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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Onions of his breath come across the counter out of his ruined mouth. He bends to make a bundle of the other books,
7:17 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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@ -- That I had.
7:17 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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I lay both books aside and glance at Tales of the Ghetto by Leopold von Sacher Masoch.
7:17 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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I idly turn over pages of The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, then of Aristotle's Masterpiece. Crooked botched print.
7:17 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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all over the world. All butting with their skulls to get out of it. Child born every minute somewhere. Mrs Purefoy.
7:17 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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Plates: infants cuddled in a ball in bloodred wombs like livers of slaughtered cows. Lots of them like that at this moment
7:16 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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A darkbacked figure under Merchants' arch, I scan books on the hawker's cart.
7:04 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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She might like something tasty. Thin bread and butter she likes in the morning. Still perhaps: once in a way.
12:11 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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On quietly creaky boots I go up the staircase to the hall, pause by the bedroom door.
12:10 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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Why are their tongues so rough? To lap better, all porous holes. Nothing she can eat? I glance round me. No.
12:10 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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Better a pork kidney at Dlugacz's. While the kettle is boiling. She laps slower, then licking the saucer clean.
12:10 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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Thursday: not a good day either for a mutton kidney at Buckley's. Fried with butter, a shake of pepper.
12:10 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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I listen to her licking lap. Ham and eggs, no. No good eggs with this drouth. Want pure fresh water.
12:10 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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Or kind of feelers in the dark, perhaps.
12:09 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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Wonder is it true if you clip them they can't mouse after. Why? They shine in the dark, perhaps, the tips.
12:09 AM Jun 16th, 2008
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