"Almost done with NaNoReMo, pt 2!"
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Tiffany
added a quote:
"Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love. " — Jeanette Winterson
"Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love. " — Jeanette Winterson
Tiffany
added a quote:
"A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it? " — Jeanette Winterson
"A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it? " — Jeanette Winterson
Tiffany
read and liked
Kay's
review of The Sun Also Rises:
"If This Book Weren't Famous, Most People Wouldn't Like It
And with good reason. If I were Hemingway's English teacher (or anyone's any kind of teacher) I'd say, "This reads more like a screenplay than a novel. Where are your descripti...more "
"If This Book Weren't Famous, Most People Wouldn't Like It
And with good reason. If I were Hemingway's English teacher (or anyone's any kind of teacher) I'd say, "This reads more like a screenplay than a novel. Where are your descripti...more "
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I read Winterson's The Passion for an English class and really enjoyed her style, and since others in the class said they loved this book, I figured I'd give it a shot.
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Winterson always has an unusual (?) way of looking things--very common or ordinary situations and thoughts--and describes them in ways most people wouldn't think about, like describing a not-so-perfect relationship as a flower bud with a worm in it that you fuss over and hope for sunshine to dry it ut and make things better (28).
"Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard" (9)
cliches of love = a familiar, comfy armchair (10, 26)
"Wallowing is sex for depressives." (26)
"passion is for holidays, not homecoming" (27)
"You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time." (38) (like The Passion)
"If in doubt eat. I can understand why for some people the best social worker is the fridge." (39)
"My usual confessional is a straight Macallan but not before 5 o'clock. Perhaps that's why I try and have my crises in the evening." (39)
"I felt like a bandit who who hides a gun in his mouth. If I spoke I would reveal everything." (40).
outside late at night - "There was an urban pleasure in knowing that I was the only one breathing the air. The relentless in-out-in-out of millions of lungs depresses me. There are too many of us on this planet and it's beginning to show." (42)
"I don't feel wise. Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?" (43)
narrator talking about dating a dentist - "I came to you for a crown and you offered me a kingdom" (47)
comparing a woman to a volcano and the narrator to Pompeii (49)
someone's who's heart-broken and has no courage - "an enlarged heart and no guts" (49)
"I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances." (49)
"It's odd being in someone else's room when they're not there. Especially when you love them. Every object carries a different significance. ... The room becomes a code that you have only a few minutes to crack." (49-50)
"In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun." (51)
"Things don't change, they're not like the seasons moving on a diurnal round. People change things." (56)
"the power of memory is such that it can lift reality for a time" (61)
"Jacqueline...had never been wanted, simply she had had roughly the right shape to fit for a while." (61)
"She was a Roman Cardinal, chaste, but for the perfect choirboy." (67)
"It was necessary to engage her whole person. Her mind, her heart, her soul and her body could only be present as two sets of twins. She would not be divided from herself." (68) ]]>
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by Ron Silliman
Hi, Moxysox.
While "Batik" sounds familiar, I can't recall what this means. I even pulled out my old class notes looking for something! Sorry I let you down :/
It is definitely a "mass of print," as you said. Erratic concentration could be a good or bad thing, though -- it's definitely more daunting if you don't feel like you can concentrate; however, the sentences/paragraphs are so non-linear that practically each sentence starts a new topic, so no concentration is required! Read one sentence, and you're done with that topic and it's time to move on (until that topic is referred to again later, but not in such a way that it's *too* detrimental if you don't remember reading it)! :) ]]>