The ecstasy of her presence. The serenity of her look. Her company is like a drug. Her velvety grasp. The touch of her golden tresses. The crown of her covering.
She’s like a marble statue alive inside a dream.
The form is perfect, the feeling lasts for eons.
Feel the energy of my life, and use it for your own purposes.
The chance is good that we shall meet.
In a place of your own choosing.
Me and you and artful musing.
Locks of gold and smile sweet.
Brilliant Bright Venusian Treat!
Shambleau! Shambleau!
Shambleau by C.L. Moore Book Review
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Book last read: 2025-11-01 11:23:54
Chapter 3: Shambleau
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Highlight: It was a girl—a berry-brown girl in a single tattered garment whose scarlet burnt the eyes with its brilliance
Notes: Berry brown girl in scarlet dress.
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Highlight: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” He smiled to himself
Notes: I’ll save you!!
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Highlight: She lifted her head and met his eyes squarely, and there was in hers a subtle amusement—he could have sworn it
Notes: She likes me!
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Highlight: that sweet brown body curving so softly from the tatters of scarlet leather—the velvety texture of that brownness—the white-flashing smile
Notes: your wish is my command.
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Highlight: he could have sworn there was a covert gleam of strange amusement in her eyes
Notes: Covert gleam of strange amusement.
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Highlight: She was so like a woman—an Earth woman—sweet and submissive and demure, and softer than soft fur, if he could forget the three-fingered claws and the pulsing eyes—
Notes: Hehe
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Highlight: She smiled exquisitely, and in starting waves back from her forehead and down about her in a hideous background writhed the snaky wetness of her living tresses. And Smith knew that he looked upon Medusa.
Notes: Wow!
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Highlight: And as there is mystery and magic in the moonlight which is after all but a reflection of the everyday sun,
Notes: Moon magic.
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