If this passage doesn't make you want to read The Kind Worth Killing....
I arrived late in the evening on move-in day. My three new roommates were clearly a trio of close-knit friends, and had decorated the common room in posters from David Lynch films and the Smiths. I recognized them from freshman year but didn’t know them personally. They all had pitch-black hair and pale complexions: Goth versions of prep-school girls. To me, they looked like Winona Ryder from three different films. The most radical had spiked hair and wore only black, like Winona from Beetlejuice. The other two were preppier: Winona from Reality Bites (bobbed hair swept off the forehead) and Winona from Mermaids (cardigans, pearls, and bangs, maybe ironic, maybe not).
I don’t know how the Three Winonas viewed me that September night, as I arrived in Capri pants and a collared linen shirt, but, despite their dark lipstick and double-pierced ears, they were friendly, offering to turn down Joy Division as I unpacked. I had just accepted a glass of wine from Mermaids Winona when there was a rap at the door. It was Eric Washburn. I was so surprised that for a brief moment I thought he must be there for one of my new roommates. But he was there for me. He was wearing cargo shorts and an oxford shirt and smelled of cigarettes and whiskey. I went with him back to the Manor and straight up to his room. He told me how he’d thought of me all summer, how he’d tried desperately to find out where I lived. He even told me that he was sure he loved me. And, like a fool, I believed him. http://www.ivampiresbook.com/Most-Po...n/page_32.html
The last book you promoted here NOS4A2 was great so I might check this
The repeated "need you more than dope" really drags down the song. Everything else is fine.
Exactly. "I'm sorry and I love you" and "I need you more than dope" are just cringeworthy, but the rest is among her very best work. The second verse alone:
Quote:
Toast one last puff
Two last regrets
Three spirits and
Twelve lonely steps
Up heaven's stairway to gold
Mine myself like coal
A mountain of a soul
"I'd rather be poor and happy than rich and alone"
Yeah, there's NO WAY she wrote Dope. And if she did write it, she wrote it the same way Beyonce "wrote" that song for which she was disqualified from an Oscar nomination.
