Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Like Watching Someone


          All drunks, particularly those who grew up in alcoholic homes, have that same sense of angst and trepidation, one that has no explainable origins. The fear is not necessarily self-centred either. It's like watching someone point a revolver at his temple while he cocks and dry-fires the mechanism, over and over again, until the cylinder rotates a loaded chamber into the firing position

James Lee Burke
Pegasus Descending
2006

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