Peter J. Atwood fiction

I like words, and more, words that are used well. This is where I collect them. Most I come across in the works of other authors, but on occasion I find some in the wild myself.

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“And then pulled the pistol’s foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.”

—Nabokov, Lolita

This is so blatant as to be extraordinary.