You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as his good hands which at night had developed the negatives, floating the sheets in the correct acids and watching the faces and breasts and pubic triangles and sofas emerge. The making and destroying coming from the same source, same lust, same surgery his brain was capable of. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)


Coming Through Slaughter (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307776617

Michael Ondaatje Quotes

You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as his good hands which at night had developed...

You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as his good hands which at night had developed...

You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as his good hands which at night had developed...

You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as his good hands which at night had developed...