How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
But I can't sleep. It's like going to sleep in a morgue. The mattress is saturated with embalming fluid. It's a morgue for lice, bedbugs, cockroaches, tapeworms. (6.10)
You know it has to be bad when even Henry can't handle it.
Quote #8
It's like I'm two people, and one of them is watching me all the time. I get so god-damned mad at myself that I could kill myself [...] and in a way, that's what I do every time I have an orgasm. For one second like I obliterate myself. (8.90)
That Van Norden is one dark character, huh? But what he says here clearly shows the equation between sex and death that Miller constantly alludes to.