“Although she knows I adore her,” he added, giving me a boyfriend-ish squeeze.

is it not an astonishing fact , with reference to the spirit of Curialism, that down to the year 1870 these preposterous claims of aggression should have been upheld

Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity […]

White folks, you're much too tight / You gotta shake your head like the black folks / You might get some tonight, look out