Love Loses

we’re basically halfway through the year this is getting SERIOUS

I feel like this excerpt is significantly enhanced by knowing that the novel in question is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an inexplicably sapient flea who lives on Bella's body, and that's why the third priest's penis is described in this way: from the narrator's perspective it literally blots out the sky.

once you realize you don’t actually need to sleep, you can really (stops talking abruptly and stares straight ahead for 4 minutes)

we used to have Big Horse in this country and now we just have Big Data - me giving a campaign speech when I run on a platform that’s anti ai but pro genetic manipulation to develop a modern equus giganteus

By ‘egg producers’, I choose to imagine they mean just a flock of disappointed British birds staring glumly at a phone.