‘This puts me in an embarrassing position,’ he said, sighing kif smoke behind his bejewelled hand. ‘You see, M’sieur Suggs, I do not officially even know of the French mission in this city. How can I give you the information you seek? If you used it, my reputation with the French might be—as you ...
‘We goin’ in there or what?’ ‘You just hold on. I got plans,’ said LeRoi. ‘Like I told you, that Eloi is our meat.’ ‘I rather go get some ribs. If we ain’t gonna do nothing.’ ‘You just hold on. I gotta plan this.’ Fred came out of the house. ‘There he goes! We grab him?’ LeRoi said: ‘Don’t be an ...
On the architect’s immaculate drawings, this is called ‘the Quad’, but no one here has ever called it anything, or made any use of it, either. Once ‘Corky’ Corcoran – but that comes later. I was looking out of this window while Beddoes talked on andon. Out and down, from my privileged perspective...
Eliot knew exactly how he looked, with the sun gleaming in his hair. The hair would be parted slightly to one side, smoothed flat all over, and rich with dark, oily health. And the teeth: so white and even that Gladys said they reminded her of bathroom tiles. Today he’d asked Gladys to become his...
The plantation grew to a phenomenal 340,000 acres, manned by 780 slaves. It was rivaled only by the decidedly second-place plantation of Robert “King” Carter (a mere 300,000 acres and 700 slaves). One branch of the family moved to Boston where, in 1759, Samuel Badcock opened a small snuff mill. T...
‘Burning seems to be one of your obsessions,’ she said. ‘A burning giraffe, a burnt face (in two stories), and even a parched adjutant.’ I said I didn’t understand what she was driving at, so she sat down to write (and doodle) the following interpretation: In dreams we entertain recurring images,...
Chanting that they were neither red nor black nor yellow, ten thousand White Shirts bore fire toward the Capitol. Wes rode in an armored cat in front. Behind was another, containing an enormous petition which, it was said, had a million signatures. The petition asked for the abolition of Negroes....