Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

Angela Carter
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Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.
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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. ✨ Angela Carter (1984). Nights at the circus, Vintage
And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and tric … ▶
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and … ▶
Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool … ▶
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from The Lady of the Haunted House

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