I couldn’t stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

but Eric said it would be spoiled by thinking this woman too was just an animal like the rest, so if he loved anybody he would never go to bed with her.

Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep.

It flew straight down from the sky in drops the size of coffee saucers and hit the hot sidewalks with a hiss that sent clouds of stream writhing up from the gleaming, dark concrete.