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Book: The Grotesque
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  1. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    She carried a faint odor of cocktail sausages mingled with sweat. Like a fool I slipped my hand up the inside of her leg. I felt the roughness of her nylons.
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  2. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    Her mouth was smeared with lipstick and her throat swung bagged and cross-hatched from a wrinkled knob of chin flanked by rouged jowls loosely depending from lumpy cheekbones. Powerful gusts of stale scent emanated from the crannies of her person; the little dog was curled in her lap like a hairy tumor.
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  3. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose?
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  4. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curtained in dingy lace.
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  5. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.
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  6. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information,
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  7. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.
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