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--spoilers-- Carey's is one of my favourite studies of Dickens, I think because he goes directly to what I believe readers love in one of the most cumbrous of England's literary giants: the intransigent, insistent contagiousness of his imagination. Ho...more |
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Now, judging from his films, you’d be forgiven for not making a chat with David Lynch your first port of call on the way to spiritual salvation; backward speaking dwarfs from parallel dimensions, sperm-babies, disfigurement, split and re-spliced psyc...more |
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-spoilers- Ackroyd states that Dickens’s concentration on ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ suffered because of the author’s concurrent concern with the launching of a new journal. I’m not sure how accurate the following conjecture is, but I’d put money on Chapter...more |
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If you're doing your DELTA or whatever (almost done, thank God!), this book distils all your Hughes, Weir, Alderson et al. into one short volume, which means you can get your head around evaluation fast, and then dip into the bigger names for the mor...more |
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“What's this?' she asked. 'Is it a sphinx?'
Yes,' he answered, 'and the sphinx is you.”
― Ivan Turgenev
Yes,' he answered, 'and the sphinx is you.”
― Ivan Turgenev
“...se ahonda en la anomalía, en lo repugnante y mezquino como si nuestra norma fuese la del respeto y la generosidad y la rectitud y hubiese que analizar microscópicamente cuanto se sale de ella: como si la mala fe y la tradición, la malquerencia y la voluntad de daño no formaran parte de esa norma y fueran cosas excepcionales, y merecieran por ello todos nuestros desvelos y nuestra máxima atención. Y no es así.”
― Javier Marías, Tu rostro ma
― Javier Marías, Tu rostro ma
“...and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better. But come! I'll tell you a story of another kind.”
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
“...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, "Land lies there.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
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