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Never - never - oh, hard word! This hag, this Reason, would not let me look up, or smile, or hope: she could not rest unless I were altogether crushed, cowed, broken-in, and broken-down. According to her, I was born only to work for a piece of bread, to await the pains of death, and steadily through all life to despond. Reason might be right; yet no wonder we are glad at times to defy her, to rush from under her rod

eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for choice and certainty. (pg. 278)

Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him, who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else...

"You don't need oil," said Dike. "You just cook the hot dog in water." "Water? How can a sausage be cooked in water?" "It's a hot dog, not a sausage."

Of course it was a sausage, whether or not they called it the ludicrous name of "hot dog," & so she fried two in a little oil as she was used to doing with Satis sausages. Dike looked on in horror. She turned the stove off. He backed away & said "Ugh." (pg. 108)

A fat cockroach was perched on the wall near the cabinets, moving slightly up and down as though breathing heavily. If she had been in their Lagos kitchen, she would have found a broom and killed it, but she left the American cockroach alone and went and stood by the living room window. Flatlands, Aunty Uju said this section of Brooklyn was called.
(pg. 107)

Hispanic also means the blond, blue-eyed guy from Argentina. All you need to be is Spanish-speaking but not from Spain and voila, you're a race called Hispanic. (pg. 106)

Hispanic means the frequent companions of American blacks in poverty rankings, Hispanic means a slight step above American blacks in the American race ladder, Hispanic means the chocolate-skinned woman from Peru, Hispanic means the indigenous people of Mexico. Hispanic means the biracial-looking folks from the Dominican Republic. Hispanic means the paler folks from Puerto Rico....

"Oh it’s not all that bad, stop turning everything into a batrachomyomachy”

“Her life is one big batrachomyomachy, nothing ever goes right."


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The Art of Translation

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I thought there was suppose to be a supermoon yesterday but it was just a normal moon. I've seen one before and it's scary if you don't know that such things as supermoons exist. This sucks I really wanted to see another one!!

Besides GR, twitter, pinterest.....any other interesting websites to check out? Suggestions......drop me a msg. Thanks!

Polly is coming off as a little weird to me with this maturity of hers. How old is she again? Unless I totally missed it I don't think it has been mentioned so I'm for the moment picturing a child acting as an adult.....let's see what happens.......

shoulda brought me a book to read during my lunch at work

FYI just found this:

Win an 80 book library from Penguin Random House....entries must be no later than August 14.

http://www.penguin.com/penguin80/peng...


Your welcome bookworms & good luck!!! =)

You......I'm not giving up on you but I'll probably finish you by Dec. instead of the club's goal of Aug......I appreciate his intelligence but this is an overwhelming book....I really want to get back to J. DosPassos.....

I must finish you before next week.......It feels I've been on this book foreverrr....and though I like it, I am not enjoying it.....does that make sense? I think I would enjoy a movie version of it and maybe have Woody Allen play Oscar......would love it....

....rant over.......

Sunday mass nailing down their immortality one day a week so they can waste the rest of it on trash, or the ones who squander it piling up $ like a barrier against death while the artist is working on his immortality every minute, everything he creates, that's what his work is, his immortality & that's why having it stolen & corrupted & turned into some profane worthless counterfeit is the most, why it's sacrilege...

-He goes off on a frolic of his own writes a play and expects the world to roll out the carpet for...

-A frolic! Where in God's name did you get that, I mean have you ever seen anyone more deadly serious than...

-Just a phrase, comes up sometimes in cases of imputed negligence, the servant gets injured or injures somebody else on the job when he's not doing what he's hired for...