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Cracking India (3) in Curbed (by the damn library) Annotations
"'Children are the Devil...They only know the truth'" (204). "Sometimes her eyes fill and the tears roll down her cheeks. Once, when I smoothed her hair back, she suddenly started to weep, and n...
One of Willow's Friends in Quote
"The plural of anecdote is not data." Love love love.
The Cleverless Me in Various Endearments
Joyful yesterday and today. Last night, Willow and I made spaghetti, and Kalil came over to watch The Hedgehog. I wept big, unattractive, German tears. Manly tears. It was incredible. Of course, ...
Trying to Figure Out What to Write for My Ceremony Bio in Quote
"She doesn't know what to write." "Clunky, awkward girl." "She hates banana peppers. Bananas are good. Peppers are good. Banana peppers are nasty, puckering lies." "She likes shooting people w...
Possession - A.S. Byatt (4) in Curbed (by the damn library) Annotations
There are faster ways to read, but I'm glad I have all of these quotes and notes to reflect on later. "You have read my thoughts - or made clear to me what were my predispositions - not in an in...
That Magic in Various Endearments
Yesterday was good and vibrant. Woke up with news mitigating the disappointment of a grad school rejection: I was nominated the outstanding graduating senior in the Philosophy department. Hooray!...
Possession - A.S. Byatt (3) in Curbed (by the damn library) Annotations
Reminds me of Aaron's butterfly metaphor for young, impressionable girls: "Here is a Riddle, Sir, an old Riddle, an easy Riddle - hardly worth your thinking about - a fragile Riddle, in white and...
A Cover in Various Endearments
The facial expressions can be a bit much, but his range is incredible and he does a fantastic job. Let It Go Cover - bearded man
Cracking India (2) in Curbed (by the damn library) Annotations
Cracking India reference #1: p.101 (the canal) "And I become aware of religious differences. It is sudden. One day everybody is themselves - and the next day they are Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christ...
Hyper in Various Endearments
I made a fort in the break area at work. It's enormous! Also, spinning in circles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwHOW51b5uk&list=PL46945DF360C68094
Gold Lining in Various Endearments
Anxiety's returned. Yesterday I got my first grad school rejection...via email (classy, Northwestern University). I applied to seven other schools, and it's a good thing no one else has gotten in...
With Willow in Quote
Willow: "We should have a commune where all we do is read!" Me: "Yes!" Willow: "But, let's think, how could we make money?" Me: "No."
Possession - A.S. Byatt (2) in Curbed (by the damn library) Annotations
"Roland felt briefly guilty of the oppressions of mankind" (75). Just a sad, nicely put, common feeling. Adorable: "Roland turned his eyes back to the shadowy desk. He did not feel the presence...
To Josh, on people who only like heavy metal. in Quote
A: "Some people have problems. That is their business." J: "Oh. Is it lucrative?" A: "The most lucrative."
I Haven't Seen a Survey in So Long! in Lists
Catch 22 is the greatest book ever written. Don't you agree? Um, no. Contenders for the greatest book ever written are: A Dance to the Music of Time, Anna Karenina, In Search of Lost Time, Senti...
Really Kindly in Various Endearments
My room has the ghost smell of wine and a hint of cinnamon, which I'm liking and hoping won't go away. Josh and Adam's friends are long gone. I met one of Aaron's doppelgangers tonight, which was...
Books Read (Jan. 2014) in Lists
Some Tame Gazelle - Barbara Pym Angel - Elizabeth Taylor Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her - A.N. Wilson The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery The Game - A.S. Byatt Guards! Guards! - Terry ...
Books Read (2013) in Lists
A Dance to the Music of Time (A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market, The Acceptance World, At Lady Molly's, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, The Kindly Ones, The Valley of Bones, The Soldier's...
Books Read (either 2012 or 2013) in Lists
Talking It Over - Julian Barnes The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence Love, etc. - Julian Barnes The Never Ending Story - Michael Ende The Loved One - Evelyn Waug...
Books Read (2012) in Lists
The Europeans - Henry James Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence The Western Canon - Harold Bloom The Information - Martin Amis The Golden Bowl - Henry J...
Possession - A.S. Byatt (1) in Curbed (by the damn library) Annotations
Mostly, I'm listing quotes that I'm too polite to underline in a book that isn't mine. "It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since it ha...
Blue Shoes in Various Endearments
Nighttime makes nearly everyone melancholic. "Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive." In the winter dark and in the chill from the bare and pretty iced window I'm annoyed because I've ...
Cracking India - Bapsi Sidhwa (1) in Curbed (by the damn library) Annotations
Okay, this is a book for my Literature of India class, and I really can't spend a long time on this entry because my test is due by 11:55, but I just wanted to record this line of Lenny's about h...
Was Ich Tun in Various Endearments
Today we watched Jenseits der Stille and I got to cry in front of all those classmates. Nun ja. Weinende ist, was ich tun. I love the clarinet, which doomed me. I get that perverse jouissance fro...
