Naomi Press

getting something for nothing,

The first twenty pages were adorned with a number of little plants

Fancy flower of paper, found in Aqua’s purse

Colonel Erminin, a widower, whose liver, he said in a note, was behaving like a pecheneg;

‘Nicest!’

‘Incest,’ said Ada instantly.

‘I give up,’ said Grace. ‘We need a dictionary to check your little inventions.’

‘Are we Mesopotamians?’ asked Lucette.

‘We are Hippopotamians,’ said Van. ‘Come,’ he added, ‘we have not yet ploughed today.’

Endlessly, steadily, delicately, Van would brush his lips against hers, teasing their burning bloom, back and forth, right, left, life, death

What (Ada asks) are eyes anyway? Two holes in the mask of life.

in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years — problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space — and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die

See you soon, my strange joy, my tender night.