I have just begun reading this, already I wish I had written it and it is exactly what I need to be reading right now. Some choice quotes,
"after my abysmal childhood was mercifully over"
"distracted rainbows"
"At certain times, especially in the evenings, as the shadows lengthened, the ripe sunlight of the day's ending fell with a peculiar, suggestive heaviness, trapping the swooning buildings in a sweet, solid calm, as if preserving them in honey. Aurified by the Midas rays of the setting sun, the sky took on the appearance of a thin sheet of beaten gold like the ground of certain ancient paintings so the monolithically misshapen, depthless forms of the city took on the enhanced glamour of the totally artificial."
(he is at the opera and everyone around him has suddenly sprouted peacock plumage)
"I am still not sure why I did not instantly clap my hand to my own arse to find out whether I, too, had become so bedecked - perhaps I knew the limitations of my sensibility positively forbade such a thing might happen to me, since I admired the formal beauty of peacocks so much."
"Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with and my city settled serge-clad buttocks at vulgar ease as if in a leather armchair."
Or, "I know i must have stood in an attitude of awed listening, as if to hear the scratching of the claws of the unknown on the outside rind of the world."
Or just, "Snarling flocks of starlings"
"Boredom was my first reaction to incipient delirium." "prostitution of the least exalted type"
She's got a bit of a thing for couplets. I'm having to read it with a pencil, more to follow.
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