Graham
Greene, The end of the affair
quarta-feira, 21 de novembro de 2012
Suddenly I
realized she was asleep. Exhausted by her flight she had fallen asleep against
my shoulder as so many times, in taxis, in buses, on a park-seat. I sat still
and let her be. There was nothing to disturb her in the dark church. The
candles napped around the virgin, and there was nobody else there. The slowly
growing pain in my upper arm where her weight lay was the greatest pleasure I
had ever known.
domingo, 4 de novembro de 2012
On my
fifteenth birthday, my mother said she would spend five dollars on me (a lot of
money for us then), and asked me what I wanted. I said, "Well, instead of
buying me something, why don't you just let me make a long-distance phone
call?" (Nobody in our house had ever made a long-distance phone call.) I
decided that I would call Edgard Varèse. I deduced that a person who looked
like a mad scientist could only live in a place called Greenwich Village. So I
called New York information and asked if they had a listing for Edgard Varèse.
Sure enough, they did. They even gave me his street address.
Frank
Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book (Touchstone,
1999)
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