Date: 1992
"Patrick sprang up the steps of the Key Club with unaccustomed eagerness, his nerves squirming like a bed of maggots whose protective stone has been flicked aside, exposing them to the assault of the open sky."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"Nancy wondered, in her husky inner voice which, even in the deepest intimacy of her own thoughts, was turned to address a large and fascinated audience."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
" He was dangerously obsessed, dangerously obsessed. And his thoughts, like a bobsleigh walled with ice, would not change their course until he had crashed or achieved his end."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"Patrick had tried to sleep, but tattered rags of speed still trailed through his consciousness and kept him charging forward."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"Only this violence could break open a world constrained by the hidden cameras of conscience and vanity."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"The smell of cocaine assailed him and he felt his nerves stretching like piano wires."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"His thoughts shimmered like a hesitating stream, gathering into pools of discrete and vivid imagery."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1995, 2002
"However, as I said last night, we just ask for this because most of us consider ourselves as chauffeurs inside our bodies, which we own in the same way as we own a car. When it goes wrong we take it to the mechanic to fix it and we do not really identify with our body, just as we do not really i...
preview | full record— Watts, Alan (1915-1973)
Date: 1999
"But fiction is not empirical truth. It is simulation that runs on minds of readers just as computer simulations run on computers."
preview | full record— Oatley, Keith
Date: 2000
"Emotions, atavisms, would be set aside, while reason -- the nabob of all faculties -- went about its work."
preview | full record— Amis, Martin (b. 1949)