Friday, 7 November 2008

Georges Seurat The Island of La Grande Jatte painting

Georges Seurat The Island of La Grande Jatte paintingWilliam Blake The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun paintingWilliam Blake The Descent of Christ painting
"Allie" and a "Gibreel" with whom each could fall in love; and was not Chamcha now imposing on them the requirements of his own troubled and disappointed heart? -- was to be the unwitting, innocent agent of Chamcha's revenge, became even plainer to the plotter, Saladin, when he found that Gibreel, with whom he had arranged to spend an equatorial London afternoon, wanted nothing so much as to describe in Brickhall Fields among schoolgirls and roller-- skating infants and fathers throwing boomerangs and frisbees incompetently at scornful sons, and picked their way through broiling horizontal secretarial flesh; and Gibreel interrupted his erotic rhapsody to mention, madly, that "I sometimes look at these pink people and instead of skin, Spoono, what I see is rotting meat; I smell their putrefaction embarrassing detail the carnal ecstasy of sharing Allie's bed. What manner of people were these, Saladin wondered with distaste, who enjoyed inflicting their intimacies on non-participating others? As Gibreel (with something like relish) described positions, love--bites, the secret vocabularies of desire, they strolled in

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