Winter Doves: A Love StoryTogether, Walter and June, a bitter, attractive, and corrosively articulate short-stay patient recovering from a suicide attempt, escape from the mental hospital and strike out on their own. |
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Page 40
... speaking . If me life - style doesn't get me Eternal Damnation , to be sure me tongue will . ' He was long gone now from the Hospital , the friendly Irish Orderly with the carrot ... speak on many subjects , but it seemed that he could 40.
... speaking . If me life - style doesn't get me Eternal Damnation , to be sure me tongue will . ' He was long gone now from the Hospital , the friendly Irish Orderly with the carrot ... speak on many subjects , but it seemed that he could 40.
Page 60
... speak . She talked ; he listened . Sometimes he would nod , sometimes shake his head , but he never spoke , for he remembered , ' Your voice sounds like a fart in a bath of soapy water . ' The second time they had met , she had asked ...
... speak . She talked ; he listened . Sometimes he would nod , sometimes shake his head , but he never spoke , for he remembered , ' Your voice sounds like a fart in a bath of soapy water . ' The second time they had met , she had asked ...
Page 135
... Speak , Roger ! Speak ! ' June and Walter had not slept well , nothing like as well on the comfortable seats of a First Class carriage as on the hassocks of the village church in which they had spent their first night of freedom . They ...
... Speak , Roger ! Speak ! ' June and Walter had not slept well , nothing like as well on the comfortable seats of a First Class carriage as on the hassocks of the village church in which they had spent their first night of freedom . They ...
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asked Baby John Baby Unit bricks buttons carrier bags clean Clifford Clive coffee cold colour conkers curtain dance door Earls Court eyes face feel feet felt fingers flat cap floor floorwalkers Gate Gracie Fields Graham Gunnersbury Park hair hand head holding Hospital hub of Empire inside Jesus Jesus's Mistakes June's laughed leaned Leicester Square light listening mind Mother and Baby mouth moved never night noise noticed nurses once opened patients pigeons pills plastic pull remembered Rita Rita's Robin Christopher round scream seemed seen Senior Adviser shook shouted side sitting sleep slowly smiled someone sound speak Squatters standing stared stood stopped sure talk tell thought told turned Turnham Green voice waited walk walkie-talkie wall Walter and June Walter knew Walter looked Walter smiled watched Waterloo Station window woman Woolworth's words young