you can come in if you like, the woman said...

by bofa xesjum

but i am sure everything is changed the whole place was renovated a few years ago… you must have walked the streets until after midnight but here you are at last! knowledge of nature will get you through every time i did not sink under my torments but did feel a horrible anticipation the poor are generous, and sometimes keep gerbils as pets you look wonderful! those torments never had a chance against you a gerbil is different from a hamster, i am told even poor people have time on their hands these days and are horribly afraid of being kidnapped by demons what did i come here for? my tormentor was outwardly a civilized gentleman i was down on the program for one number don juan on the caravan to nowhere the temptation was too strong for poor juan and he wrapped his soul in brown paper wondering why he had been born “if nature had a balance, it would not be nature” he intoned with his bright beady eyes looking into mine you know i am absurdly in love what are you so afraid of? knowledge of nature is only half the task here you are at last! i realize you are feeling a horrible anticipation as we all do every day and night of our lives we are all absurdly in love sources: the time machine, by h g wells; the island of dr moreau, by h g wells; “a haunted house” by virginia woolf; three lives, by gertrude stein; the thirty-nine steps, by john buchan; “the black monk”, by anton chekhov; confessions of an english opium-eater, by thomas de quincey; rasselas, by samuel johnson; ”the dilettante”, by edith wharton; autobiography of an ex-colored man, by james weldon johnson; up from slavery, by booker t washington; adventures of tom sawyer, by mark twain