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Cock & Bull QUOTES

1 " It’s like that, isn’t it? Just as Raymond Chandler says, ‘The first kiss is dynamite, the second is routine and then you take her clothes off,’ It had been like that for Alan in his previous affairs, even the extended one he had had with Sybil while Naomi was pregnant. Sure, Alan went on enjoying sex with Sybil, but at a fundamental level his lust for her had died the very first time he felt the shock of her pubic bone against his, and knew that they were now truly welded into one another. Alan was a one-thrust man. Not that he’d ever been exactly promiscuous. Perhaps it would have been better for all concerned if he had been. Rather, his sentiment self-absorption had managed to gild each of these terminal thrusts with enough self-regarding burnish for him to sustain the ‘relationships’ that legitimised them for months; and in at least two instances, for years. "

― Will Self , Cock & Bull

2 " Don't try it," he said. The mutant was reading my mind. "You, boy, you're a literary trainspotter... "

― Will Self , Cock & Bull

3 " ....with the morbid realisation that his sexual being was a dull thing, a lifeless thing, a mass-produced marionette with chipped paint and fraying strings "

― Will Self , Cock & Bull

4 " He parked in a nearby street and walked out on to the bridge. Below him the lights of London spread away in a wash of low wattage, Their dimness gave the lie to the very vastless of the city. Bull heard its distant roar, its night-time sough, its terminal cough "

― Will Self , Cock & Bull

5 " Alan sensed Bull as liability, pure liability, triple liability. Alan was now having an affair with a man who had a cunt in the back of his leg. Worse still, the man was his patient. At the very least he would be struck off… "

― Will Self , Cock & Bull

6 " Grove Health Center," trilled the woman on the end of the line. She had the vocal automisation that comes to people whose job description might as well read: 'Ceaseless repetition'. "

― Will Self , Cock & Bull

7 " Dan slept throughout - but a man who sleeps with his head lying on a phone table can never really sleep with a clean conscience "

― Will Self , Cock & Bull

8 " Henry James tinha apenas meio pênis. Pouca gente sabe disso. O pobre homem perdeu a outra metade correndo atrás de um carro de bombeiro, tentando ser útil como bombeiro amador na sua cidade natal, Boston. Ele tropeçou e caiu debaixo de cascos de cavalos e do chão se levantou pálido e meio homem. Puseram-no numa maca e levaram-no para a sua excepcional família. Seu irmão William olhou para o pobre Henry. Viu o retalho ensanguentado em sua culatra. E desafiou o Criador, quem quer que fosse Ele, a resgatar a integridade física de seu irmão. Na verdade, William estava rezando em nome de todos nós, afinal, ele sabia o irmão que tinha. Sabia também que a partir dali, tudo que poderíamos esperar era por uma série de romances, diversos calhamaços substitutos do pênis. Uma vez que não poderia mais foder quem quer que seja, resolveu nos foder a todos com suas sentenças-serpentinas desenrolando-se em nossas mentes como ideias turgescentes. "

― Will Self , Cock & Bull

9 " The first touch came when Bull was lying full-length along the skirting board in the little six-foot vestibule that connected the bathroom to the kitchenette and the front door. He was the picture of powerlessness. His sensible, striped M&S shirt was rucked up around his back, his white, cotton Y- fronts dewlapped over the flat surfaces of his buttocks. Alan’s fine and tapering hand described an arc over him. He knelt as if stroking a cat. At the zenith of the arc Alan’s palm made contact with the small of Bull’s back. Bull stiffened bur did not cry out or resist…Oh, cruel deceiver! For how could Margoulis not have known that in this moment of breakdown, of cracking distress, the thing that Bull, of course, still desired most ardently, was the dry, sensible touch of a doctor. "

― Will Self , Cock & Bull

10 " Morning came, and a grey wash of light found Dan, his cheek thrust hard in the carpeted right-angle of the bottom stair "

― Will Self , Cock & Bull