BOOK OF EXTRAS (1994-2001)


by Miltos Manetas

 

 

 

The basic problem for Lawrence was that he was lazy.

Intelligent. Like Shakespeare's face . A man black in color, black hair and eyes, light skin, wrapped tightly in a big overcoat itself the color of dark night, paused to light a cigarette and glance about.

Boford Hess was a highwayman.

A single glance, one quick look and you knew it. He wore the Great Sword , the long-bladed jerrykin, like any Aviator or Code soldier, and the usual brace of stars, and he had the dromos crest-single plait of hair woven up through the close -fitting bronze filigree skull-cap then left to fall down his back , between those broad shoulders.

He had his distinctive glass, enamel and silver duty-sigil on a chain around his neck . In an older Human language, he might have been called the complete mercenary. In another, the ideal minder-one who has come to love his employer, for whom the fee no longer matters.

Mr. Mac Huge, he took off his silk hat and blowing out impatiently his bushy mustache, welshcombed his hair with raking fingers.

Stuart saw the man's hollow face, the staring eyes and the mouth, especially the mouth. A scarlet beaked face, crested by a comb of feathery hair.

The bold blue eyes . Ned . Is that how it is ? He wondered. To be crazy ?

Myles Crawford's wife .

She had the foot and mouth disease and no mistake ! Myles Crawford , the bloodiest old tartar God ever made .

Myles Crawford, his darkrimmed eyes, his long lips .

Oh my god, Doctor Stockstill thought. This man I do recognize him. This is Bruno Bluthgeld, the physicist.

There's a ponderous pundit MacHuge who wears goggles of ebony hue .

Rhymes : Two men dressed the same , looking the same, two by two .

Poor Mrs. Purefoy ! Methodist husband . Method in his madness .

The young , good looking man was a print, someone's clone identikin, now looking for work.

Bronze by Gold , Miss Douce's head by Miss Kennedy's head .

Mr. . Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice .

All those were points against him . Something Troglodytic , shall we say ?

He 's an extraordinary looking man , and yet I really can name nothing out of the way . There is not easy to describe .

There is something wrong with his appearance . Something displeasing. Something downright, Something detestable .

Mr. . Hyde , is it the mere radiance of a soul that thus transpires through , and transfigures its clay continent ?

Someone with very little knowledge of the world as it was and the attitude of someone desperate to learn.

The slim, fair -headed , twenty-five years old-Green , his name was , Hollis Green -was innocent and smart at the same time , an incredible blend in these days of cosmopolitanism or else.

Dr. Stephen Burnham, a swarthy, good-looking anesthesiologist .

Dr. Lawrence Foley: He was a tall man with thin features and a long straight nose that sharply tented the front of his surgical mask. Soon all Candy could see of his face were his gray- green eyes.

The rest was hidden, including his silver-white hair.

He might be unpleasantly brusque, but at least he was up-to-date in his medical reading.

Jennifer: her skin was soft and remarkably smooth with hardly a freckle to mar its surface.

Jennifer insisted that her genealogy was English and Irish on her father' side of the family, German and Polish on her mother's side.

That's right, said Jennifer. He was a mongoloid baby

She knew Dr. Vandarmer was good, but she could have used some warmth.

Prince Stepan Arkadyevich: plump, pampered body. Oblonsky was a straightforward man in his dealings with himself.

She's a dancer, said Adam.

Adam's opinion of Dr. Vandermer rose a little.

Jennifer was exhausted.

He was like an automaton or a patient under heavy sedation.

A few minutes later a man came by and introduced himself as Rodney Murray.

He was wearing a blue jacket made of the same heavy cotton as Karen's jumper with an identical tag announcing his name. His voice also had an odd flat quality, and as Jennifer stared at him, she realized that his eyes did not seem to blink.

Dr. Markowitz was a short, stocky man with dark curly hair not unlike Adam's. He had a deep tan , even though it was just March.

Eryl: Jennifer suddenly realized how terribly young and vulnerable the girl was.

The people at Julian Clinic are outstandingly warm and sensitive.

She knew her as a rather melancholy twenty-year-old with a weight problem. He knew next to nothing and wanted a job that would teach him quickly. She had pixieish features with a smallupturned nose and large eyes. Her disheveled hair was a dirty blonde.

She has a body that goes by itself .

Candy was strikingly immaculate in her appearance, her blonde hair twisted neatly into a French braid. His child was not some kind of genetic monster.

Susie : hard yellow calluses , ragged nails, the smooth curve of the back , the taut strap of the bra , those tensed muscles of the back of her neck .The frayed elastic bad of her skimpy sorts .

Jenny and her fine brown hair ; whose skin smelled of Caswell Massey soap and borrowed perfume .

Ten thirsty fingers of my blind Muse Confer upon my face their sensual spelling .

Lucky Louie had short curly hair, razor rash face and sparse hair on his arms .Cross had brown teeth and dark wrinkles around his mouth, gray watery eyes and tiny inflamed scars across his stomach . Like the deep and sweeping

scratches of cats . His whole face seemed pulled together around the eyes , as though someone had squeezed .

Bertha Morley was a thick, handsome woman . Phillipa had strong , corn colored hair . The wide mouth with its strong curved upper lip and sensuous droop at each corner was devoid of lipstick but she had applied her eye shadow with cave .

Her most remarkable feature, the luminous , slightly protuberant green eyes . Her honey- colored skin glistened with sweet .Maurice Palfray was a small dark spectacled man .

 

Hilda, looked very young and defenseless like a schoolgirl .

 

Her pale lank hair normally fell forward over her face . Her eyes were worried .

 

Gabriel Lomas had a long , bony , honey-colored face with its high cheekbones .

 

Very clear in its outlines, the eyes were so unclouded.

 

Lips , red at the outlines as if

 

Mnemjian is young , cheap and clear .

 

Capodistria, he is more a goblin than a man .

 

The flat triangular head of the snake with the huge frontal lobes; the hair grows forward in a widow ' s peak.

 

A whitish flickering tongue is forever busy keeping his thin lips moist.

 

Melissa's features were a cave . With her long bereft Greek face , with its sane pointed nose and candid eyes , the sating skin that is given only to the thymus- dominated .

 

Céline Loiseau non era una cattiva ragazza .

 

Because they are nervous , curious , turned to sexual curiosity .

 

Balthazar is a tall man in a black hat with a narrow brim. He is thin , stoops slightly , and has a deep croaking voice of great beauty .

 

In speaking to you, he never looks at you directly-a trait which I have noticed in many homosexuals . Molly Millions wore black leather open over a T- shirt slashed diagonally with stripes of red and black .Dake was a fat boy with

brillantined hair .Hilda ...looked very young and defenseless like a schoolgirl . Her pale lank hair normally fell forward over her face . Her eyes were worried .Madcap Ciss with her glowing curls . Goddard was a languid blonde

with a spotted skin . Champ, legs pumping , soles of his zori showing . A tall black bearded figure : Mr. Power . "I haven't done anything criminal or immoral"

 

Smith O'Brien . Has that silk hat ever since.

 

Mr. Powers good-looking face. Grayish over the ears .

 

Poor Paddy . Blazing face : red-hot . Too much John Barleycorn . Cure for a red nose . Drink like the devil till it turns adelite . A lot of money he spent coloring it .

 

A dwarf's face mauve and wrinkled like Ruby's was . (a child)

 

Dwarf's body, week as putty , in a whitened deal box .

 

Martin's Cunningham's large eyes .

 

Taylor . His dark lean face had a growth of shaggy beard round it . He wore a loose neck cloth and altogether he looked ( though he was not) a dying man .

 

FINN LOOKS LIKE A RECOMBO DNA PROJECT AIMED

 

AT TAILORING PEOPLE FOR HIGH- SPEED BURROWING.

 

Gerty Mc Dowell

 

She was pronounced beautiful by all who knew her .

 

Her figure was slight and graceful inclining even to fragility .

 

The waxen pallor of her face was almost spiritual in its ivorylike purity though her rosebud mouth was a genuine Cupid's bow , Greekly perfect .

 

Her hands were of finely veined alabaster with tapering fingers as lemon juice and queen of ointments could make them though it was not true that she used to wear kid gloves in bed or take a milk footpath either .

 

Why have women such eyes of witchery ?

 

Gerty's were of the bluest Irish blue, set off by lustrous lashes and dark expressive brows .

 

Time was when those brows were not so silkilyseductive . Mrs. Dignam : for nose she had a button one . Yes ! Hesi cried, smiling her first smile since they'd found her. But Gerty's crowing glory was her wealth of wonderful hair . It

was dark brown with a natural wave on it . Hude must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity , although I couldn't specify the point . Large and darkboyish eyes , and a dusty olive tam . Surtees was a heavyset

Negro who wore the only shoulder-holster forty-five . Trobridge had a smallish waist, and wide fleshy hips . He was one of those fat, sloppy, cushy dudes . The Magnetic Dog Sisters, were two meters tall and thin as greyhounds .

One was black and the other white, but aside from that they were as nearly identical as cosmetic surgery could make them .

 

I saw her or somebody like her .

 

Little Jean was a case , an exquisite case of education . Jeanne de Vionnet , this charming creature . Miss Barrace is a raffined and her amusement won't lose by Mrs. Pocock . She is just a little too attractive , she is too delicate .

Hopper is one of Nature's gentlemen I Know . Mary Millman was a twenty-two-year old secretary who worked for a department store in downtown Detroit . Jean Colber , a prim and proper New Englander with auburn hair . Dr.

Nacano , handsome deeply tanned Japanese-American . He did not understand him psychologically. Why did Hoppy wants to repair TV sets ? What was so great about that ?

 

Susie had short jet-black hair , a round face, and black almond eyes . She was short with small hands , and well built . A farm girl . Martha Gillespie had been widowed at a young age and left a fortune . She was about sixty , with snow-white hair .

Tine was robust and conveniently tall just a trifle too bloodlessly fair perhaps , but with a pleasant public familiar radiance that affirmed her vitality .

Maria : there was something in her manner , her tone , her motion , her pretty blue eyes , her pretty perfect teeth and her small , too small , nose .In Sara's face he saw this from something fairly hectic .Paranoia sensitiva , Stockstill thought, although of course there have to be tests.

 

- That's Big George on the left. That's New Luke next to him. And Times David. Can't tell the others.

 

Mrs. Newsmen was essentially all moral pressure , the presence of this element was almost identical with her own presence . "He is a pest," Stuard said. " He won't be when he starts working, " Lightheiser said. That's a powerful

mind he's got , and he also has ambition .

 

Mrs. Newsome , an old gray-haired woman with a wart on her nose . Milly is about my age : fifty-one fifty-two.

 

Martinez was in his forties , with dark skin , dark eyes , and almost black hair. He was fastooned with all manner of gold jewelry and more diamond cuff links .

 

Dorian has a simple and a beautiful nature . Mr. Dorian Grey was certainly wonderfully handsome , with his finely- carved scarlet lips , his frank blue eyes , his crisp gold hair . All the candor of youth was there , as well as youth's

passionate purity . One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world .

 

Lord Henry is in his low , musical voice and with that graceful wave of the hand that was always so characteristic of him .

 

Mr. Gray with his rose-red youth and his rose-white boyhood he had passions that made him afraid .

 

Mr. Dorian Gray's face one day will be wrinkled and wizen , his eyes dim and colorless , the grace of his figure broken and deformed .

 

The scarlet will pass away from his lips, and the gold steal from his hair . The life will mar his body . He will become dreadful hideous and uncouth .

 

Ernest is invariably calm . That is one of the reasons he always gets on my nerves . Nothing is so aggravating as calmness .

 

She is excessively handsome .

 

Miss Worsley is never morbid , never morbid .

 

Lord Illinworth is of course , a very brilliant man , but he seems to me to be lacking in that fine faith , in the nobility and purity of life which is so important in this century .

 

Traire was a senior officer and an Elsewhere.

 

" And you are good, Traire ? " the captain asked. In the Human way, inclining his head once, Traire had answered. "I am the very best , my lord."

 

Ozzie was a man with hairy backs to his hands . Alexandra was a northern blood . She wore her hair in a single thick braid down her back . Her hair had never been a true clarion Viking blood but of a muddy pallor now futer

dirtied by gray . Most of the gray hair had sprouted in front ; the nape was still finrspun .

 

Stella had a wet swollen bruised face .

 

Alexandra was a high-spirited beauty . Brian was red - lipped , with sharp wolfish teeth . When younger , with a blond beard he looked piratical . Now he was clean-shaven , with very short grayish hair growing in a neat swirl from

his crown . He was not very tall , with an assertive face and long blue eyes . Gabriel was taller , with restless moist brown eyes . She had a rather long nose and floppy fairish limply curling hair which she tossed from in front of her

face. Brian was not good looking , but he had an impressive head .

 

Alex was tallest , still handsome everyone said , though as the years went by this saying had become traditional and worn away a little .

 

She had an oval face and a pretty nose and she had remained slim . She had long eyes which narrowed by thought or emotion in a nice cat - look .

 

Father Bernard was fairly tall, but he had a large nose .

 

He was a handsome man though odd-looking . He wore his dark straight sleek hair parted in the middle and falling in fine order to the level of his chin .

 

He had rather shiny or luminous brown eyes . He was thin with thin noble hands .

 

Dean with his suffering bony face, with the long side-burns and his straining muscular sweating neck .

 

Gabriel was pretty , quiet , shy hiding behind her floppy hair .

 

Marge Perley had full eyebrows lifting you make half-circles above her dark resentful eyes whose brown was always a shade paler than one's memory of it .

 

Eddie was a real- nosed young drunk of thirty , a typical New Yorker . He wore a beat sweater and baggy pants .

 

Brian compared with George was "nice" but not all that nice .

 

Connie , with her mane of red hair , her face of apple-blossom , her murmuring voice .

 

Hally Ray was a large man with a huge belly , wearing a tank-top undercoat . His hair was cut severely in a military style crew cut . His face was dominated by a large , swollen nose with red capillaries fanning the side of each

nostril .

 

Mr. Remington was a big man , with a full , well-trimmed beard . His bushy brows poked over the top of his horn rimmed glasses .

 

Pedro was a handsome young man . His hair was coal black and he sported a narrow mustache . He looked about twenty .

 

VJ was a handsome boy , about five feet tall , some-what large for a ten year old . His golden blond hair had not darkened like Marsha's had , and retained his angelic character . And just like the day he was born , his most distinctive

feature was his ice- blue eyes .

 

Pozzo: I am impertinent .

 

Jeremy Haines was not afraid of responsibility .

 

Hester Madigan was an ambitious woman who had married him principally because he knew so many important people .

 

Maxwell Barnett : The delicate tracery of small veins on his nose looked red .

 

At sixteen Kathy was beautiful .

 

John the beginner .

 

John , 18 , hated his face . If his nose were smaller , his eyes a different brown , his bottom lip pouty ...

 

John , he dyed his hair blue-black, wore torn T-shirts, smeared his eyes with mascara .

 

I am a talentless but popular young singer and I have the feeling someone is watching me . (David)

 

I am also friendly and sweet and naive .

 

This is a song about how great I look . First my hair , which is brown , neatly cut and smells of herbal shampoo . I inherited puffy blue eyes from my mother . I'll get them lifted someday . For now they seem sort of lonely .

 

My nose is petite but who cares as long as my lips , which are truly enormous (they look like a tiny , skinned butt) , don't get too saggy .

 

The face is oval shaped , naturally .

 

My body's short, thin but healthy .

 

It hangs from my shoulders like a clean leotard and is just dead on its feet at the moment . The End . George is terrific to look at , like me , and I have the idea if we sit and explore one another , both talkwise and physically, that 'll.

quell you-know-what . We have exactly the same high-pitched , colorless voices . And when we take off our clothes the parallels are unnerving. We become two little ghosts wearing human masks . I hate the fact that human bodies are

warmlles . Pedro was a handsome young man . His hair was coal black and he sported a narrow mustache I think they should either be ice-cold or have no temperature whatsoever, like pieces of paper . My favorite porn stars were

slim , pale teenagers with shoulder-length hair , preferably black . The boy had thin skin, shapely legs , a dated haircut and oversized eyes . Best of all , he had one of those asses that open unusually wide . George : He reminds me of

a cartoon character . You know the 'real boy' Pinocchio's forced to become in the old Disney film ? Der stille Vater und das stumme Kind ! Jack , a passionate lover of language , he knows how to use it . Born virtuoso that he is . Yet

you can't say he's cool . He's hot , red hot . And if he's far out , he's also near and dear , a blood brother , an alter ego . The observer and the observed .Those weird, hauntingly ubiquitous characters, whose names may be read

backwards or upside down . The physicist had bad skin and he needed a haircut , and his entire face was marred by the worry within him...but there was no "disfiguration". Except for the strain visible there, it was an ordinary face; it

would not have attracted notice in a group. Do you know this girl , the dark one ? - Mardou ? - That her name ? Who she go with ? Do you see the blotches ? Mr. Tree said hoarsely. " The ungly marks that set me apart from

everybody ? "No " Stockstill said . Jack Steen , very interesting Leslie-Howard-like little guy who walked like a Viennese philosopher with soft arms swinging slight side flow flowing strides , coming to a stop on corner with imperious

soft pose.

 

Interesting people , some kind of Truman-Capote-haired dark Marlon Brando with a beautiful thin birl or girl in boy slacks with stars in her eyes and hips that seemed so soft when she put her hands in her slacks I could see the

change-and dark thin slackpant legs dropping down to little feet, and that face , and with them a guy with another beautiful doll , the guy's name Rob and he's some kind of adventurous Israeli soldier with a British accent whom I

suppose you might find in some Riviera bar at 5 a.m.

 

Jack : I was standing at home working furiously on a huge novel , mad , cracked , confident , young , talented as never since when she pointed to my profile shadow on the pale green wall and said , ' How beautiful your profile is ' .

 

For several days in sexual fantasies it was she , her dark feet , thongs of sandals , dark eyes , little soft brown face , Rita-Savage-like cheeks and lips , little secretive intimacy and somehow now softly snakelike charm as befits a little

thin brown woman disposed to wearing dark clothes , poor beat subterranean clothes .

 

Is she pretty ?- Beautiful but I can't make it - . Roxanne (a woman of 25 prophesying the future style of America with short almost crewcut but with curls black snaky hair , snaky walk , pale pale junkie anemic face and we say junkie

when once Dostoevsky would have said that ?............................. what ? if not ascetic or saintly ? but not in the least ? but the cold pale booster face of the cold blue girl and wearing a man's white shirt but with the cuffs undone untied

at the buttons .

 

Paddy Cordavan , a big tall blond brakeman type subterranean from the Eastern Washington cowboy-looking in jeans coming to a wild generation party all smoky and mad .

 

The captain of the EMU was a tidy man , an efficient man , but he was also a man of human sympathies. Do you want me to know who you are ? Doctor Stockstill asked. "Or shall we accept you simply as Mr. Tree ? It's up to you;

either way is satisfactory to me " His wife Iran : gray, unmerry eyes .

 

If he finds out I'm a chickenhead he won't talk to me .

 

Never in his life had he personally seen a raccoon .

 

Hannibal Sloat . For some reason Sloat never cleaned his glasses . The dust, over the years had eroded him; it had left his features gray, his thoughts gray; it had shrunk him and made his legs spindly and his gait unsteady .

 

In a few years only his bird-speech voice would remain, and then that would expire, too .

 

Polokov: red -faced, cherubic-looking man, evidently in his mid-fifties, wearing a heavy and impressive Russian-style great-coat .

 

A woman's face appeared on the videoscreen . Hello' , she said. It was not Iran . He had never seen that woman before in his life .

 

Polokov ? That big Santa Claus from the Soviet police ? Ever since I first met Polokov I've wanted to test him, but no pretext ever arose . The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands

clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, sound-less scream . Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become

contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound .

 

You are not human. No more than I am: you're an android, too'.

 

I saw her very clearly, Iran said. A small young-looking girl with dark hair and large black eyes, very thin . Wearing a long fish-scale coat . She had a mail-pouch purse . And she made no effort to keep us from seeing her . As if she

didn't care . I don't believe Bruno has become a paranoid schizophrenic, she said to herself. This is only a situation deterioration, and with the proper psychiatric help- a few pills here and there- he'' be okay. It's an endocrine

disturbance manifesting itself physically, it's not a character defect, a psychotic constitution, unfolding itself in the face of stress. Mary grew up, as her father described her, " singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind.

Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything she undertakes almost invincible ." He adds that she is also very pretty . It is not know which of these qualities most affected the poet Shelley, but the ensemble was

irresistible . Your affectionate brother, Robert Walton . I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness . He is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he

gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him . He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance .

 

I have lost my hopes of utility and glory.

 

I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together, I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show sings of life and stir with an uneasy,

half-vital motion .

 

"Something has just been placed into my phased-out hand " His phased-out hand. "What? What does that mean ? What sort of object ?

 

It is the beginning of self-doubt in a place where self is all there is.

 

Your affectionate and afflicted father, Alphonse Frankenstein .

 

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