Saturday, September 27, 2008

Rembrandt paintings

Rembrandt paintings
Raphael paintings
Sally Swatland paintings
defined his condition to Angela after the first week of the régime. “I’m not rejuvenated or invigorated. I’m etherealized.”
“You look like a ghost.”
“Exactly. I’ve lost sixteen pounds three ounces.”
“You’re overdoing it. No one else keeps these absurd rules. We aren’t expected to. It’s like the ‘rien ne va plus’ at roulette. Mrs. What’s-her-name has found a black market in the gym kept by the sergeant-instructor. We ate a grouse pie this morning.”
They were in the well-kept grounds. A chime of bells announced that the brief recreation was over. Basil tottered back to his masseuse.
Later, light-headed and limp, he lay down and stared once more at the ceiling paper.
As a convicted felon might in long vigils search his history for the first trespass

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