- "All the better to see you with"
- "Leonine"
- "Funeral lilies"
- "great pistons ceaselessly thrusting"
- "inspecting cuts on the slabs"
- "it must have been my innocence that captivated him"
- "my eagle-featured, indomitable mother" (blurring gender lines)
- "formal disrobing of the bride"
- Her "spent body" has been used up; her virginity consumed by the Marquis as a "connoisseur" and "gourmand".
- “his dark mane”
- A choker of rubies like an extraordinarily precious slit throat"
- “the white dress, the frail child within it"
- "the jewels round her throat bright as arterial blood”
apr 29 2013 ∞
apr 29 2013 +