You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illus…

Angela Carter
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You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish. ✨ Angela Carter (1977). The Passion of New Eve, Harcourt
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You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish. ✨ Angela Carter (1977). The Passion of New Eve, Harcourt

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