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Anonimo Veneziano
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recommended to Scribble Orca by: Ali's excavations

Scribble Orca Scribble Orca said: "
Off-the-cuff and unjustly doing:

"Cloaked in a residue of fog that neither dissipated nor densened into rain, somewhat defeated because of a torpid sirocco more atmosphere than wind, dozing in a past grand and splendid and surely also immodest verging...more
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"Lui perde la voglia di gridare. Certo che non lo ama. Come potrebbe amare, lei, un uomo simile. Sta con lui per onesta convenienza, diciamo, e può anche essere che la figlia sia nata per una convenienza altrettanto onesta. Lei ha il dono di rendere onesto tutto ciò che fa, ma lui non si sente più d’aggredirla, per questo, visto che l’onestà non le risparmia certo giuste dosi di umiliazione e sofferenza." May 11, 2013 08:20am

 
Finnegans Wake
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recommended to Scribble Orca by: Nathan "N.R." Gaddis

Scribble Orca Scribble Orca said: "
The problem with Finn Egan's Splashy Fest-o-the-Dye Inn is muchly how there is to admire and lake, and how much to make and add lyre that nary a chary chance haven't a nanobreadth's posse and abillybongabitty in all of onrushininginfinity to Die Cifr...more
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"Eiskaffier said (Louigi’s, you know that man’s, brillant savourain): Mon foie, you wish to ave some homelette, yes, lady? Good, mein leber! Your hegg he must break himself. See, I crack, so, he sit in the poele, umbedimbt! A perspirer (over sixty) who was keeping up his tennises panted he kne ho har twa to clect infamatios but a diffpair flannels climb wall and trespassing on doorbell." May 11, 2013 08:10am

 
Aurorarama: A Novel

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"He entered the pub, noted for its remarkable painting of a rather muddy and dark whale-hunting scene, asked for a Scores-by Stout and a Specksioneer Sandwich, and went to the Pneumatic Post Booth. There he wrote a message to Sybil to tell her he would be home late (though she would probably be partying somewhere), put it in a canister, sent it through the outward tube, and set about looking for William de la Whale..." May 11, 2013 08:01am

 

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Antonomasia is on page 187 of 358 of On Writing: "I joined a writers' group and then remembered that I don't like groups." Hah.
The flourishing of these things always surprised me. I quite like groups when I'm awake enough - but definitely not for writing.
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Something in My Eye by Michael Jeffrey Lee
Something in My Eye: Stories
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Aubrey is on page 58 of 672 of The Royal Family: Evil is one thing. Evil's only subjective. Illegal is another.
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Patrick O'Brian
“I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium... - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is ... inhuman... the only feelings I have are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.... Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
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Aldous Huxley
“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me.”
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Frank Herbert
“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!”
Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

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x is an unknown quantity
spurt is a drip under pressure”
― Anonymous or Vincent Bellini

William H. Gass
“...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead.”
William H. Gass

Short Stories (Literature & Fiction)
2 chapters   —   updated Oct 21, 2012 09:33pm
Description: Currently two short stories submitted for the 2012 The Age (Melbourne newspaper) Short Story Competition.
Film Hall of Fame (Entertainment)
1 chapters   —   updated Jul 20, 2012 06:53pm
Description: The idea for this is owed to Brian's Review Hall of Fame.
On The Issue of Identity (Select)
2 chapters   —   updated Nov 15, 2010 12:52pm
Description: Just my own personal take...
Fililee and the Elf-Prince (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
1 chapters   —   updated Nov 10, 2010 12:57am
Description: Princess Fililee has been forbidden to accompany her father to the Elves. She disobeys, and seals her fate.
Flimsy attempts at satire (Humor)
1 chapters   —   updated Nov 07, 2010 01:36am
Description: The title says it all, really.
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