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Heather
took the never-ending book quiz.
| questions answered: | 580 |
| correct: | 443 (76.4%) |
| skipped: | 291 |
| best streak: | 10 |
| questions added: | 0 |
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by Cormac McCarthy
Matt thanks for providing that term! Polysyndeton. I have never heard or used that before but I knew there must be a literary word to describe C's sentence. To me, each sentence is like an incredible painting full of the most vivid detail: OR, a still shot from an intense and complicated film. You have to look around inside the sounds and letters to make your meaning. It is a beautiful thing he's doing with language and I wish it were more common. It's just that he's brilliant. ]]>
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Heather
added a quote:
"Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world." — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world." — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Heather
added a quote:
"It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun" — Charles Bukowski
"It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun" — Charles Bukowski
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