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I don't know how to talk, never having had anyone to talk to. And very early on, I
discovered the great deceitfulness of speech. The sincerity of the written word?
Sometimes, in a pinch. I bought a bar of nougat from a candy machine on the ...
I don't know how to talk, never having had anyone to talk to. And very early on, I
discovered the great deceitfulness of speech. The sincerity of the written word?
Sometimes, in a pinch. I bought a bar of nougat from a candy machine on the ...
Page 64
Soon my cheeks will meet in the middle to form two clumsy buttocks, burying the
cartilage of my nose, still intact, between them. My face will never be grief-
stricken over wrinkles, will never try to halt their inexorable progress with waters
from ...
Soon my cheeks will meet in the middle to form two clumsy buttocks, burying the
cartilage of my nose, still intact, between them. My face will never be grief-
stricken over wrinkles, will never try to halt their inexorable progress with waters
from ...
Page 106
The bright lights of the parties never shone as far as the deserted corridor on the
third floor, where the sound of violins in the orchestra died away in faint mewing.
The subdued murmur of worldly conversations barely reached me from the ...
The bright lights of the parties never shone as far as the deserted corridor on the
third floor, where the sound of violins in the orchestra died away in faint mewing.
The subdued murmur of worldly conversations barely reached me from the ...
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