A writer's better days

He is a great man that never gets out of bed, he said. He spends the days and nights reading books and occasionally he writes one. He makes his characters live with him in his house. Nobody knows whether they are there at all or whether it is all imagination. A great man.

Flann O'Brien, At Swim-two-birds 139

To Touch

"MacMurrough recalled his own discovery of touch, the willing of it, its exploration: so very different from the being touched, the receiving into one's seclusion the touch of another. And so maddeningly sensual. Often, going home, MacMurrough ached of arousal unrelieved."

O'Neill, At Swim Two Boys 376