English Martyr

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    The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
    —18th-century English proverb.

    He took up his pen, which seemed to parch like a martyr in his hand. He began to write, nevertheless, addressing the nine-and-ninety lies of the moment he hoped with for a night of saloperie at the side of the twisted strumpet, Fiction, who lasciviously rolled her eyes at him, hiked up her skirt, and beckoned him on.
    Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)