And after that I got job after job without too much trouble. Even in art school, I got a grant because my dad had just retired and I suddenly became eligible. A contradiction in terms if ever there was one. I was working freelance in advertising all through this period in London. The deeper in they were, the more beautiful they looked when the moment came.Īnd I lived for the moment. All those intimate moments, every little sigh, those gentle touches, the lovemaking, the confidences, the orgasms, the attempted orgasms-all mere fuel. There was just the two of us and the pain. They'd just stare at me in disbelief and shock.Īll the pretense and rules dissolved away. He'd done it, though, because I'd been taking the pith out of hiths listhp. I was lucky to get out of that house alive. One of my "victims" stuck my head on an electric cooker ring. And then when he'd head-butt me, I'd say, "Call that a headbutt?" So the guy would do it again harder. I'd go up to the biggest guy in the place and look up his nostrils and call him a faggot. My mouth always got me into trouble, of course. But then, as far as I was concerned, wasn't everyone doing the same thing? I started to realize something was wrong when I began to get beaten up. I think I always knew deep down I had a drinking problem. Either way, after getting into Alcoholics Anonymous, I didn't even kiss a girl for five years. Or maybe I was just afraid that they'd see through me. I couldn't even look at a girl, much less believe I deserved to converse with one. I carried the guilt of my crimes around with me for years after I stopped drinking. I've been punished, so it's okay to talk about it all. The same thing happened to me, only worse. Then the glaze as they tried to hide how much I was hurting them. Till the big saucer eyes were looking at me. I'd wait until they were totally in love with me. I didn't care how long it took either, because I was in no hurry. It's like when you hear serial killers say they feel no regret, no remorse for all the people they killed. possible trigger warning for victims of domestic abuse.Mentally, not physically, I never hit a girl in my life. i am sixteen years old and i believe its suitable for people between the ages of thirteen right through adulthood. exceptionally talented writer that makes you feel sorry and LIKE the antagonist which isnt easy. the fact that it is based on someones own life makes it feel so much more emotive and personal. excellent character development, plot, twists, and overall extremely talented writer. i havent enjoyed a book this much since the harry potter series when i was eleven. One of my favourite reads that i keep going back to. The story starts with the storyteller making sense of how he gets a kick out of the chance to mentally hurt ladies. The book narratives his relation with ladies, a large number of whom he accepts he has mentally damaged, as well as one lady, Aisling, who he feels is his karmic revenge for having treated ladies so inadequately. “All I know is, I felt better when I saw someone else in pain.” “I’ll offer you the possibility that I’m wrong only if I’m fairly sure I’m right.” “The same thing happened to me, only worse. “They say you’re not punished for your sins, you’re punished by them.” Top 5 Quotes from Diary of an Oxygen Thief She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. Diary of an Oxygen Thief was called a “surprise dark-horse Williamsburg best seller” by New York Magazine, referring to the independent art, literature, and music scene in Brooklyn, New York Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a 2006 Dutch novel, written anonymously and published in Amsterdam by NLVI.
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