Famous Last Words: A NovelDelacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981 - 396 pages Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul. In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament - the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in a scandal and political corruption. |
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... Thought it was down there waiting for him in the water . Drunk as an old goat . Fell in love with it was some young lady's behind .. goes the legend . Fact is , he probably thought He laughed . " Got a great hard - on and thought , I'll ...
... Thought it was down there waiting for him in the water . Drunk as an old goat . Fell in love with it was some young lady's behind .. goes the legend . Fact is , he probably thought He laughed . " Got a great hard - on and thought , I'll ...
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... thought to proper food . Way off down the hall , Quinn could hear two people talking . Rudecki , more than likely , nattering with the picket at the top of the stairs . Just two ordinary voices , barely au- dible . Just two ordinary men ...
... thought to proper food . Way off down the hall , Quinn could hear two people talking . Rudecki , more than likely , nattering with the picket at the top of the stairs . Just two ordinary voices , barely au- dible . Just two ordinary men ...
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... thought he was going to strike me . But he didn't . He need not . His words struck for him . " I am always a student of your books , " he said . " I am always your lover of your books . But I am not your lover now , Signor Mauberley ...
... thought he was going to strike me . But he didn't . He need not . His words struck for him . " I am always a student of your books , " he said . " I am always your lover of your books . But I am not your lover now , Signor Mauberley ...
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