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  1. Public Bookmark 25

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    For all the ship has tilted, John feels steady with Edward and George by his side.

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    23 Apr 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 30

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    When you slip on the ice, there is a moment before your brain registers what is happening. Your foot slides and loses its hold, your body dips to an unsustainable angle, your knees begin to buckle - but you have yet to put it together, have not yet figured out what you’re headed for. In the short second before the pain of hitting the ground and loosing your footing, all you feel is a lack of understanding and an alarming surge in your guts.

    It’s like that now. Tozer sits watching Hickey paw Lieutenant Hodgson and feels the ground slip away and away.

    Hickey tilts his head. “May I see to you?” he says to Hodgson, very gently.

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    Tozer becomes a willing witness to Hickey's seduction of Hodgson, and is seduced himself in the process.

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    11 Sep 2022

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    George was no devil. He liked to poke at John—prod at him, bring him out of his shell—josh and tease and tell long rambling stories with uncertain morals but he was not, could not be the sort of agent of Satan whom John had long feared would come along and tip him once and for all into perdition. John was sure he would know that man when he saw him: his nature would be unmistakable.

    No, the only soul at fault here was John; the only evil here was his own. He had been lax with his devotions, thinking himself too happily content to need them. He had not felt himself about to fall.

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    09 Feb 2022

  4. Public Bookmark 2

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    He fancies himself a solitary figure on the light-drenched stage of the Royal Opera House in London, the darkness beyond the bound of the stage utterly devoid of any human presence, and it is such a horrible, petrifying feeling that George smiles silently into Edward’s hair, breathes in the stale, deathlike odor of him. When George closes his eyes, he is glad that he is alive.


    George and Edward live and struggle in the aftermath of their rescue.

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  5. Public Bookmark 17

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    “May I put to you an indelicate question, Mr. Hodgson?” Jopson asks after a pause. “Pray, do not be offended. But we are isolated here for a reason, spoken ill of by the villagers for a reason. And so it is as, perhaps, a friend with similarly queer predilections—and therefore as an ally—that I ask: are you and this John Irving terribly intimate with one another?”

    “I’m quite sure I don’t know what you mean,” George returns, blushing madly.

    “You know, sir, precisely what I mean,” Jopson answers. “You are among sympathetic friends.”

    George shakes his head. “I do not believe—he is terribly opposed, you see, to such things. My little chaste monk. I call him that, even, and threaten to cut his hair into a tonsure some night while he sleeps. He does not find this terribly funny.” He picks up a vol-au-vent and blows on it, suddenly feeling quite melancholy. “He does not find many things terribly funny.”

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    23 Nov 2021