"Only this violence could break open a world constrained by the hidden cameras of conscience and vanity."
— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Author
Work Title
Date
1992
Metaphor
"Only this violence could break open a world constrained by the hidden cameras of conscience and vanity."
Metaphor in Context
What was sex next to this compassionate violence? Only this violence could break open a world constrained by the hidden cameras of conscience and vanity.
(p. 274)
(p. 274)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Quotations drawn from Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk (New York: Picador, 2012).
Date of Entry
09/26/2015
