The Elementary Particles

[Anonymous No.14075221]

>One night in December, just before Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror started, Bruno took the seat next to Caroline Yessayan. Toward the end of the film – having thought about it for more than an hour – he very gently placed his left hand on her thigh. For a few wonderful seconds (five? seven? surely no more than ten) nothing happened. She didn't move. Bruno felt a warm glow flood his body and thought he might faint. Then, without saying a word, she brushed his hand away. Years later – fairly often, actually – when some little whore was sucking him off, Bruno would remember those few seconds of terrifying joy; he also remembered the moment when Caroline Yessayan moved his hand away. What the boy had felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to reach out and touch a loving body, to be held in loving arms. Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so difficult to give up hope.

I'm a quarter-way through The Elementary Particles. Is all Houellebecq this good? Maybe I just like it because I'm a child of divorce and can identify with it.

[Anonymous No.14075418]

He gets better even than this. I’m also a quarter of the way through the book. Reading Submission next it’s fantastic.

[Anonymous No.14075467]

>>14075221
wait until they are in the hippie camp

[Anonymous No.14075524]

After reading this book I bought a one-way ticket to Ireland

[Anonymous No.14075534]

>>14075221
Why did he disfigure himself? He was actually kind of cute

[Anonymous No.14075570]

>>14075534
How did he disfigure himself? I thought he just got old.

[Anonymous No.14075593]

>>14075570
Chain smoking and alcoholism