George Bellows Club Night painting

George Bellows Club Night paintingGeorge Bellows Autumn Brook paintingCaravaggio The Seven Acts of Mercy painting
decompose, boom." -- "As a matter of fact, dearest," Alicja said dryly, "I often feel a little incompatible myself.")
The flaws in the grand passion of Alleluia Cone and Gibreel Farishta were as follows: her secret fear of her secret desire, that is, love; -- owing to which she was wont to retreat from, even hit violently out at, the very person whose devotion she sought most; -- and the deeper the intimacy, the harder she kicked; -- so that the other, having been brought to a place of absolute trust, and having lowered all his defences, received the full force of the blow, and was devastated; -- which, indeed, is what befell Gibreel Farishta, when after three weeks of the most ecstatic lovemaking either of them had ever known he was told without ceremony that he had better find himself somewhere to live, pretty sharpish, because she, Allie, required more elbow-room than was presently available; --
-- and his overweening possessiveness and jealousy, of which he himself