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Giles Goodland

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from Fact Remains: 1912

these ‘parasitic’ foetuses are never born alone; they are the twin of a normal child/ the heat causes the cylinder and the piston rings to expand until at last they become jammed irremovably together/ now propped dismally against the overmantel, obscured by a plush-bound photograph of Mr. Lloyd George/ a goil would be a mutt to stay cocked up at home. An’ yet a goil couldn’t go chasin’ around be her lonesome/ stammered the lady, dropping the letter into her lap, and patting with agitated fingers her cap, her curls! the mist had thickened to a white, infinitesimal rain-dust/ and the slightest noisture in the air was liable to draw them down into lank and unsightly plasters/ she’s the kippiest kid that ever lisped. Fed the angel on lobster and champagne last evening/ whose symptoms were traced to repressions due to the sudden death of her fiancé/ which ensues in the unconscious feelings of the physician through the influence of the patient/ I felt a slight shudder under my hand and released my grip/ I have faults, vices, beastliness but even with them I do believe you ought to marry me & be in love! shifted his position and came at the jury from another intellectual angle/ I call to remembrance Qechalia’s daughter, who, ere Love ‘neath his tyrannous car-yoke had brought her, had been spouseless and free.

 

A Keith Human Body 116; F Talbot Motor-Cars 35; C Mackenzie Carnival 347; A Lewis Apaches of N.Y. 41; E Porter Miss Billy’s Decision 16; J Galsworthy Inn of Tranquillity 48; J Stephens Charwoman’s Daughter 46; A Pendleton Seagoing Experiences of One Heck Haskins 34; Medical Annual 458; A Brill tr. Freud Selected Papers Hysteria (ed.2) 210; J Conrad ‘Twixt Land and Sea 60; L Woolf 29 April Letters (1989) 174; T Dreiser The Financier (1967) 312; A Way tr. Euripides IV 205

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