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One Hand Clapping

by Anthony Burgess

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House of Holes

by Nicholson Baker (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 14, 2026 09:36PM

“Think of you! To think of a whirlwind, though 'twere in a whirlwind, were a case of more steady contemplation : a very tranquillity of mind and mansion. A fellow that lives in a windmill has not a more whimsical dwelling than the heart of a man that is lodged in a woman.”
― William Congreve, The Way of the World

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“The palms of her hands were like a damp Sunday and she wore a cross round her neck where a tiny raisin of flesh, a coagulated but still transparent bubble of dove's blood, seemed always in danger of being sliced off by that thin gold chain.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister

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“That night, in the strange stealthily deepening darkness, under the lindens of that spacious public park, on a stone slab sunk deep in moss, Ganin in the course of one brief tryst grew to love her more poignantly than before and fell out of love with her, as it seemed then, forever.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary

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“On the hard boords he threw her, and used his knee as an yron ramme to beat ope the two leavd gate of her chastitie. Her husbands dead bodie he made a pillow to his abhomination.”
― Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller: Or, the Life of Jack Wilton

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“To be fine, fingers must be long and slender and yet provided with flesh soft enough to keep their delicate shape. Each finger must differ slightly from another, yet there must be harmony between them as a whole. There are fewer people with beautiful fingers than people with beautiful faces.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Nowaki

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