One supposes that, even then, this new taste for turning away might have been overcome, but that is assuming the two had found the result unpleasant. The beginning of loss was this: each time some manner of beauty was offered and declined, the subsequent isolation each conceived was irresistible.
excerpt from The Entrance of Sin by Scott Cairns, Recovered Body (1998)
Friday, January 25, 2008
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