Success (1987) by Martin Amis

Author:Martin Amis
Format: epub
Published: 1987-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

“Gregory! How do you spell ‘Extraterrestrial’?”

“E, x, t…” I moan.

—simple-minded oriental motif, inducing in the fit viewer a tendency to think he needs his eyes fixed or his stomach seen to, a gust of existential nausea, a deranged insult to all one’s—

“Gregory! How do you spell ‘Embryonic’?”

“E, m, b…” I plead.

—most intimate hopes and dreams. Reeling through the gallery towards the Styleses’ fetid grotto, I saw that the Creator, the First Author himself, was present, hunched worriedly over the catalogue draft; Old Ma Styles stood in hirsute attendance while Jason fumbled with the coffee cups behind them. Apparently the fraudulent little oik was very anxious about the catalogue, partly because he couldn’t dream up any ‘titles’ for the oblongs of homogeneous drivel which now smothered the gallery walls. “Less think,” he says. “What about ‘Sensuality’ for this one. Or for that one. Or for that one.” I crept away to my desk, suffering Madame Styles to give me a bellow if—

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