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Page 37
There's nothing like encountering the taste of sugar just as one's opening one's
eyes to dispel the weight of bad dreams. I don't dream very much, as a rule. At
least, I don't retain any precise memory of the images that flicker past in my sleep.
There's nothing like encountering the taste of sugar just as one's opening one's
eyes to dispel the weight of bad dreams. I don't dream very much, as a rule. At
least, I don't retain any precise memory of the images that flicker past in my sleep.
Page 113
... shove the monster down his throat, on my cookie-crumbinfested rug,
surrounded by my shelves loaded down with jams and jellies and my chocolate-
stained books, let him have a taste of her, here in this garbage dump piled high
with empty ...
... shove the monster down his throat, on my cookie-crumbinfested rug,
surrounded by my shelves loaded down with jams and jellies and my chocolate-
stained books, let him have a taste of her, here in this garbage dump piled high
with empty ...
Page 129
Heavy with chocolate, my tongue cleaves to the roof of my mouth, which is filled
with a rancid taste I can't get rid of. And what if this foul taste were to last forever,
throughout death? And what if death were merely eternal insomnia in the heart of
...
Heavy with chocolate, my tongue cleaves to the roof of my mouth, which is filled
with a rancid taste I can't get rid of. And what if this foul taste were to last forever,
throughout death? And what if death were merely eternal insomnia in the heart of
...
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