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It's so luscious, the way he is always "thinkering" with words, "another syllable to suggest collecting a thought as one tinkers with a half-completed bicycle. Words are tricky things, a friend has told him, they're more tricky than violins." One can't help thinking that Ondaatje doesn't find words to be tricky things though; words he gets.
— Jan 09, 2013 01:57AM
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Emma Weine
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She stopped reading and looked up. Out of the quicksand. She was evolving. So power had changed hands. Meanwhile, with the help of an anecdote, I fell in love. Words, Carravagio. They have power.
— Jan 13, 2013 03:49AM
Emma Weine
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She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from a sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.
— Jan 08, 2013 01:26AM
