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The House of Hunger choose

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[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] ‘You fucking bitch!’ ‘Shit!’ ‘Up your arse!’ ‘Fucking shit!’.
at up your arse!, excl.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] ‘Then he would make me stick my arse right out into the sky of his face with my head between my knees and he would breathe it in’.
at arse, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] ‘Hello, arse-face,’ Philip greeted him.
at arse-face (n.) under arse, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] They teach you self-respect, but in their image, so that even what you think is your own personal anger is actually Babylon’s anger.
at Babylon, n.1
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] There’s homeless people out there. There’s many going about in the rags of their birthday suit.
at birthday suit, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] And that blasted barman was still staring with great interest into my face.
at blasted, adj.1
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] Booze was better than girls, even black girls.
at booze, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] The one thing that bugs me about the man is that he even loved white men.
at bug, v.2
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [book] [He] was forever recounting harrowing stories about ‘where he was at with the chicks’.
at chick, n.1
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] And he got himself all mixed up about a West Indian girl who worked in the kitchen [...] such a ‘comedown’ was to say the least shattering.
at come-down, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] The eyebrow pencil seemed to have completed the transformation of my old Julia into a beer hall doll.
at doll, n.1
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] Peter, as is usual when something indistinct disgusts him, farted long and loudly.
at fart, v.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] And she immediately clashed with Flash Harry by exclaiming [etc].
at flash harry (n.) under flash, adj.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] [A] motley rabble of single persons, junkies, dope-pushers, frightened old age pensioners, unemployed men and women.
at junkie, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] He began to curse: ‘You bitch. Kaffir-lover. Kafferboetie. You cunt. You …’.
at kaffir-lover (n.) under kaffir, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] Everyone at the school knew I had become a ‘loony’.
at loony, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] Know what The Man says? He says, If you think the world is all wrong, just turn your mind back to front and everything will be all right.
at man, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] ‘Nigger [i.e Zimbabwean] girls are just meat,’ Harry said. ‘And I don’t like my meat raw’.
at meat, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] ‘What do you want with my mother, munt? Begging for arse?’.
at munt, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [book] [of a white Zimbabwean] ‘She’s got everything nigger girls don’t have’.
at nigger, adj.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] [H]e let it be known that Edmund’s mother was a ‘common drunken whore’ and that he, Stephen, had screwed her nuts.
at nuts, adj.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] I slid my hand into my coat and casually brought out an evil-looking Okapi [...] Knives were not that strange to me.
at okapi, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] ‘Dope? You take that – stuff?’ ‘Yes. The Lebanese variety is the best piss for me’.
at piss, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] [S]tuck-up students and get-rich-fast bastards and live-now-think-later punks who are just as bad.
at punk, n.1
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] [I]t [i.e.a block of flats] housed a motley rabble of single persons, junkies, dope-pushers, frightened old age pensioners, unemployed men and women.
at pusher, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] ‘Of course it’s another thing when a man is starving for pussy’.
at pussy, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] The sixth [film] was of Julia being screwed by Citre.
at screw, v.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [book] ‘All you did was starve yourself to send this shit to school’.
at shit, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [book] He knew all the city slang, all the slick scenes, and [...] could name every name worth knowing in ‘showbiz’.
at showbiz, n.
[Oth] D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) ‘ [ebook] I licked the rest of the drops from his stick’.
at stick, n.
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