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The natural world increasingly becomes for the Consul a book of correspondences in which the story of his betrayal may be read. |
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Regard: the plantains with their queer familiar blooms, once emblematic of life, now of an evil phallic death UTV, 65. |
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Yvonne's arms were full of bougainvillea … "Careful, Hugh, it's got spikes on it, and you have to look at everything carefully to be sure there're no spiders." UTV, 141.
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During the week, when they were allowed to play, the course was deserted: yellow ragged sea poppies fluttered in the spiny sea grass. UTV, 17.
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Simple words, simple and terrible words, words which one took to the very bottom of one's being, words which, perhaps a final judgement on one, were nevertheless unproductive of any emotion whatsoever, unless a kind of colourless cold, a white agony... UTV, 128.
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