Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren’t satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting.
Roman PayneTag: sex fiction feminism characterization roman literary-theory making-love payne roman-payne women-writers plot-suggestions panting
The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The very word funus may be translated as dead body, funeral ceremony, or murder. There was a genuine concern that, if not treated appropriately, the spirits of the dead, or manes, would return to wreak revenge
Catharine ArnoldThat's not fair," I said.
"Georgina," he said simply. "We're in Hell.
Tag: roman georgina-kincaid
You will not pass!” Roman thundered.
Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.
Tag: funny gandalf lotr roman ilona-andrews snarkiness andrea-nash gunmetal-magic
Women are extraordinary creatures!
Roman PayneTag: style love gender girls woman women fashion girl gender-stereotypes extraordinary womanhood gender-equality roman creatures payne gender-identity extraordinary-women moda mode
Une fille sans nattes est comme une ville sans ponts.
Roman PayneTag: roman payne francais filles litterature-francaises natte nattes tresse tresses
What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born. Her face, at once innocent and feral, soft and wild! Her mouth voluptuous. Eyes deep as oceans, her eyes as wide as planets. I likened her to the slender Psyché and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: the dusty hems of her bunched-up skirt, the worn straps of her nightshirt; the blackened soles of her tiny bare feet, the coal-stained balcony bricks upon which she sat, and that dusty wrought-ironwork that framed her perch. All this and the pungent air!—almost foul, with so many odors. Ô, that and the spicy night! …Pungency, spice, filth and night, dust and light; all things dark did blossom in sight; flower and bloom, the night has its pearl too—the moon! And once a month it will make the face of this tender girl bloom.
Roman PayneTag: love women beauty guitar flowers cleanliness sculpture faces smells psyche beautiful painting face roman dirt fatherhood barcelona payne roman-payne full-moon the-wanderess balcony skirt nightshirt
I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.
Roman PayneTag: fear love passion woman women beauty death despair night afraid bed roman female beauty-in-nature passing-of-time payne feminine roman-payne nocturnal beauty-in-literature passing
It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.
Ilona AndrewsTag: roman don-t-panic
Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods. He says he brought his Batman belt.
Ilona AndrewsTag: roman
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