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„Power power, everybody like wants power“
„Ted, I noted, was very busy – at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.“
„There were…smiles of encouragement for Lydgate, and some smiles of sweet pity as well, as for the only leper present.“
„An Egyptian priest…. plays up the mystery of language to enhance his own power.“
„…You know what they call you expatriates? White leeches.“
„…And the rising sun shall rise yet higher, destroying with its flaming fire the evil will of the wicked West, but smiling warmly on the rest“
„He forgot that the Malays revere cats and that the Chinese merely relish them.“
„From ancient drains and sewers of the language (maritime inns and brothels…), from scrawls in the catacombs…whoremasters’ chapbooks…the vocabulary of tavern brawls“
„It was not seemly to raise your flags on the minarets.“
„Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.“
„I decide that the East has definitely spoiled me for women.“
„The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil.“
„It was all a matter of a Goddess – dark, hidden, deadly, horribly desirable.“
„The dog now slept, occasionally farting very gently.“
„…death came so easily, hardly announced, without apparent cause, often greeted with smiles.“
„Chickaks or geckos chirp on the walls….“
„The Antipods…were always ready to burst.“
„It’s sapiens to be homo.“
„Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely. “
„The disembarkation was a fucking shambles and we only took Alexandria as quick as we did to get a fucking drink somewhere, because we were near dead with the thirst…. The town was full of a lot of half-starved blacks, near-blacks you could call them, in filthy rags, raising their hands to the bloody burning heavens when they saw us come in, shouting Allah Allah and so on. Some old bints with veils on gave us fucking filthy water to drink, but filthy or not it was like elation and ecstasy and so on. There was hardly a solitary fucking thing worth having in the whole town, all half-starved goats and so on, and talk about the fucking heat and the smell. Anyway, what they called sheiks came and gave him the keys, and the officers did all right with like knives and scimitars with jewels on, but then we had to move on to Damanhur and Rahmaniya and so on, near dropping with the fucking heat….“
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