Word: veronica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Betka, Veronica's voluptuous girl friend, whose "pure teeth savagely crunched stalks of celery that broke in her mouth like icicles of spring." One day she received a one-word telegram from her mother in Poland. It said: "Suka" (Russian for bitch...
...Frick Museum. "All the real or fanciful memories of his prolix love experiences strewn in disorder along the semiprecious beach of his life were now gathered together and arranged by his libido in the great hierarchical and opalescent vase of his sybaritic egoism." So he was glad to meet Veronica Stevens, who was now living in Palm Springs with Betka, the Polish girl...
Pearl Thighs and Centaur Sweat. Veronica spent most of her time horseback-riding-"the mother-of-pearl pincers of her thighs pressing the animal's flanks and blending with it in a pearly communion of centaur sweat." Betka had had a child before she left Paris: the father was probably the masked aviator, though it might have been three acrobats. But Veronica was not jealous. When she recalled her masked aviator, "her will fluttered like the star-spangled banner...
Later, the Count pretended to be the masked man. He "pressed Veronica to him with that enveloping and symmetrical suavity that he seemed to have inherited from the trimmed foliage of old French parks." She and the Count were "united in a single tremulousness." Then they got married...
...Veronica loved the Count "with the harmonious turbulence of all her viscera." But the Count was still in love with Solange (he had left her in France). He had only "a sentimental veneration for [Veronica's] vacant, meningitic stare," though he liked to surprise her "by refined flashes of turpitude." Soon, "life became like a bath in a tepid lake." "If one day I decided to kill myself," mused the Count. "I should choose the moment immediately after the radio had announced the despairing and inexorable phrase, 'Bulova Watch Time...