Not angrily, either, but with a cold curious force that was horrifying to see and even worse to feel.
This reader, from the first generation, received a copy not long after the book appeared, and can still recall its curious force.
Shared passions and ideas have a curious force of their own online, and even those who adore this will admit that this can lead to warped priorities – from staggeringly brutal flame wars to trolling and deeply engrained sexism.
But where Steven Berkoff memorably gave us a stylised, slow-motion dream, Jamie Lloyd's Headlong production transports the biblical fable to a world of grungy apocalyptic excess; while the result has an undeniable visceral power, it misses the curious moral force behind Wilde's lavish display of decadence.
When she arrives at Joe Allen, her trademark red hair obscured by a straw trilby, the waiters try to make a point of not staring but their mouths drop open anyway, as though their chins have been drawn towards the ground by some curious magnetic force.
He meditated further on the hidden forces that seemed to be troubling Tunisia and on the curious violence on the Avenue, which he could not explain.
Legal worries surrounding his first story collection Girl with Curious Hair forced him to write a 17-page memo to the lawyers of Viking Penguin explaining the original sources of almost every detail in every story – he became, as DT Max puts it, "a writer in reverse".
This thought of him as a patient and curious voyager forced my hand, to delve deep, to read the plaques, to slow down and just gaze at the blinding white stone columns.
He is force-fed by a tube inserted into his nose, but it is a curious form of force-feeding as he pushes a button himself to activate the system.
Hunters in the Dark Lawrence Osborne Hogarth Lawrence Osbornene's fourth novel about a quietly dissatisfied schoolteacher from England, brushing up against dark currents in foreign climes, is a curious and magnetic force of storytelling, tautly plotted, exquisitely unravelled.
Al-Issawi was not suggesting, as many observers in the Middle East were, that the armed forces had deliberately targeted the network (although he did find it curious that American forces had also fired on the offices of Abu Dhabi Television that day, and that they'd bombed an Al Jazeera office in Afghanistan in November , 2001.
