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The Swan & the Jackal

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J.A. Redmerski
J.A. Redmerski

J.A. Redmerski is a contemporary novelist born on November 25, 1975. His works are highly acclaimed by readers and critics for their unique narrative style and profound insights into human nature. more

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“Do you know that feeling? When you meet someone and you know? The sudden hollowing out of your torso, as if your lungs, heart, viscera have gone and the ribs seem to creak like barrel staves under too much pressure. Glimmerings, intimations of the way I felt now had occurred before with Faye Hobhouse, Dagmar - even Huguette. It is, I think, to do with fear: a fear of impotence - not sexual, but of lacking the power or ability to capture the object of your vital passion. A haunting dread that you will never have the chance again, that the moment has passed you by for ever.”

“The nature of the female is that she brings forth from out of her own depths fragments of the unknown which it is the duty of the male to make practical upon the physical plane, because it is he who has the ability to reason out what the female has intuited. To this effect the male must also apply his feeling to that which the female brings him, so that he can follow her, and in so doing, fathom the practicability of her gift. In this way male and female together map out the unknown.”