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The Dark Fields of Venus choose

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[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 175: ‘I never had intercourse with that louse.’ ‘Oh. So how can he accuse you?’ ‘Because he’s a cheater’.
at cheater, n.
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 158: ‘If he doesn’t trust you, why don’t you dump him and find another who will?’.
at dump, v.
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 20: ‘How do you think your boy friend got it?’ ‘I don’t know. I’d like to know.’ A little while later I told her that she had it, too. ‘Have what?’ ‘Gonorrhea’.
at get it, v.
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 54: ‘Are you a junkie?’ I asked. ‘I used to be. But now I’m off the hook’.
at off the hook under hook, n.2
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 12: They have no veins: their veins have been ‘killed’ by heroin injections.
at killed, adj.
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 194: ‘I’d never have such a man. I’d tell him to go fly a kite!’.
at go fly a kite! (excl.) under kite, n.
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 66: When I refuse to give them the pills [...] they think I’m cruel, stingy, stupid. I’ve sold out to the establishment.
at sell out, v.
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 22: She was barely twenty, a semiprofessional, plump, unkempt, and confused.
at semi-pro, n.
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 121: ‘When did you last see a woman or a man?’ ‘This week I’ve seen only two women’.
at see, v.
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 136: Nowhere is a miracle so obvious as in the shaking of an addiction.
at shake, v.
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 104: ‘You take heroin.’ ‘Not any more; I used to.’ ‘How did you straighten out?’ ‘It was easy,’ he said. ‘I wasn’t really hooked’.
at straighten, v.2
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 172: ‘Do you drink a lot?’ I asked. ‘Not any more. I straightened out.’ ‘How did you do that?’ ‘I said a prayer’.
at straighten, v.2
[US] B. Yanovsky Dark Fields of Venus 125: ‘But why Krishna, why not Christ?’ I inquired anxiously. ‘Krishna is the father of Christ, stupid!’.
at stupid, n.
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