One can stick to low cholesterol foods, yet eat such quantities as to pack on the pounds.

He imagined huge electrodes, busy pantographs skidding inklines across graphed paper, self-adjusting gears clicking into place […]

It made me remember the old ballad where she wakes up in bed with her lover, and the sheets are damp and she says ‘wake up, wake up, the sheets are all asweat’, but when she looks it’s not sweat but blood in the bed.

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