“He stood there weeping and watching us go, while behind him Lucky Paul entered and collapsed the prospector's tent, and I thought, Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.”
“Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.”
“Paul Theroux was sitting in the pew (at Bruce Chatwin's memorial service) behind him. “I suppose we’ll be here for you next week, Salman,” he said.”
“It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.”
“Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice.”
“If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—”