“If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?”
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“Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.”
“HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.”