Recovering Your Story Quotes

“just”
― Arnold Weinstein, Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison

“Well, how do you understand things or people? It is a question Shreve himself asks, and then answers by referring precisely to Sutpen’s opposite number, the little dream-woman Rosa Coldfield: “What was it the old dame, the Aunt Rosa, told you about how there are some things that just have to be whether they are or not, have to be a damn sight more than some other things that maybe”
― Arnold Weinstein, Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison

“alters/annihilates all pretensions of individual”
― Arnold Weinstein, Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison

“Touch alters/annihilates all pretensions of individual sovereignty and hegemony, cashiers any notion of an integral self, an atomic individual, busts wide open the closed doors of the “central I-Am’s private own.” We cannot fail to see that American individualism itself is on the block here, and is in trouble, is exposed as a precarious construct—yes, the armored nuclear self is a construct—slated for destruction by the most elemental act in human (and political and racial and sexual) life: touch. Perhaps the most striking feature of this stupendous passage is the strange”
― Arnold Weinstein, Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison