make-believe
electrophobia
still moist behind the ears
vomiting a vocabulary of fear, hope, threat, despair.
A stark unhuman piece of flesh with a shark's hunger inside it."
A reptilian sorcery
Joy, then, become a mania
A free-and-easy atmosphere
puckering her forehead very importantly
You're like Jimmie was.
the wretchedness of garbled emotions
a flash of words, as if he were exploding into phrases
desperate surrender
Her kiss took the breath out of him.
a sudden lusty kinship
sensualism
glutting their beastly hungers
the vile dictates of their lower natures
abominable cruelties
a tear-damp handkerchief
a vivid-faced young woman
neurasthenics
"Dreamers were scoundrels or lunatics who justify their unfitness for society
_by ridiculing it as unworthy and by phantasizing over new values and _standards which would be more amiable to their weaknesses."
deeper and more a part of his fiber
debasing
"his virtue derived in establishing its superiority by assisting spiritually in the punishment of the unvirtuous
_mania for conformity"
dubious integrity with elastic scruples and pliable consciences
grown stern and audible, grown verbose and insistent,
a sexlessness about her that inspired vulgarity
A saturnalia of masks
There's something odiously impersonal about them
a tenuous fugitive figure
"vivid eyes, dark lips, a cool, shadow-tinted face at home under exotic trees
_a morose little girl insanely sensitive with a dream inside her"
A refreshing warmth in the street pleased his senses
shoe-button eyes
Rabelaisean exaggerations
munching out monosyllables
a subtle incense for his deadened nerves.
"...An emancipated creature who prides herself on being able to drink cocktails without losing caste/status.
_She'll marry the first drunken newspaperman who forgets himself in her presence and spend the rest of
_her life trying to induce him to go into the advertising business."
dressed with a certain ease
Arguments, reprimands, entreaties
grappling with shadows
automatic efficiency of his thought
formless and without beginning or end
items of vast indifference
Idlers
irresponsible-eyed, casual-mannered individuals
Oldish young men and youngish old men
drained, hollowed out as by some tenaciously devouring insect
a man ideally fitted
assembled themselves on his tongue and pirouetted of their own energy
the residues of emotion
preoccupation
greedy little purposes
the aimless din
The city alive with signs, smoke, posters, windows; falling, rising, flinging
silence tumbled through the streets
a scribble of rooftops against the sky
Leave the old man be
He offered no answer
little dying candle-flame faces
a featureless little glint of white in the shadows
found himself once more looking
seemed to grow always more motionless
a patient, trembling figure
like a caress into his mind