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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:28 UTC

Marcel Proust - BOTD
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:55 UTC

She's so tired of writing and living as if she were reading.
As if her life were a novel with too many ellipses.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:54 UTC

When she was a girl, Penelope didn't know where her parents ended & the TV began. Her parents were tuned in and broadcast every so often in the house where they lived or, rather, passed through a few days a year. But he parents were on TV all the time & at every hour.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:54 UTC

The perfect crime: they make money and get famous (the kind of fame most all the Scotts and Zeldas who don't write will attain in the twenty- int century, with their compulsive exhibition on social media) and spend the time at home with their children.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:54 UTC

The nun leaves the room with a smile that's only smiled because smiling is the only more or less socially acceptable way of baring your teeth.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

All that's left is to put up with them with patience or with love, which is the same thing, because love always ends up being one of the many kinds of patience
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

The monologue, it's well known, is a gift and privilege of the powerful and the mad, of the madly powerful, and of the powerfully mad.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

And right away, entering the foyer, as magnificent as it was dilapidated, of that theater (one of those theaters with all-powerful names like Olympia or Atlas or Majestic or Alhambra or Rex)
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

And Penelope falls in love with that laugh, which is a tremendous laugh. A laugh of the "Huahuahua" variety that would embarrass anyone else who released it, who would cover it up with a hand and turn down the volume. But not Lina.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:52 UTC

Thru all those ventures, losing money were a profession,the Karmas would be millionaires-blaming their setbacks-on the political situation in the country. And Penelope never was able to figure out what it is the Karma factory produces.Clothespins? Toothpicks? Shoeshine. #Fresán24

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:52 UTC

unquestionable benevolence,which leads the Karmas to sign up for any kind of philanthropic activity & thereby paper & carpet over & mask the fact that they don't work or produce anything beyond a certain dynastic inertia in & withwhich they're always "oh so very busy"
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:52 UTC

That's why, for them, Las Vegas is the perfect place to go and to come back from: boutiques for the women, tits and asses for the men, shows for both-Celine Dion is the great Karmatic crooner-
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:52 UTC

And Penelope traveled toward them. And it was one of those journeys some would designate a bad trip, others an odyssey, and everyone as unforgettable.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

The Karmas were the least bookish people she'd ever known. The
The highest concentration of nonreaders per square meter; creatures that asked themselves and asked you if you were okay or bored or depressed anytime they saw you reading, by yourself.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

it didn't occur to anybody you should go out on tour to appear and present and to sign and to get to know your readers so they can know you. You wrote and that was it. The end. The book.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma," as Winston Churchill said of Russia, and might Heathcliff have been born of the union of a Siberian father and a prostitute from the taverns along the River Mersey?

Anything is possible.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:50 UTC

Is Heathcliff Arabic, or is he a gypsy, or is he black, or is the bastard and unacknowledged son of Mr. Earnshaw?
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:50 UTC

-they don't say "We'll see you soon" but "We'll look you up soon," because they think fixing their eyes on something is bad manners. To look is elegant and aristocratic, to see is vulgar and plebian. The rich look and the poor see.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:50 UTC

A book that's mad and wise. A book that's imperfectly perfect and perfectly imperfect. A brilliant book, both idiot and savant.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:50 UTC

"Its characters do not resemble any others in our reading experience, so we must leave it to our readers to decide what sort of book it is."

And the readers decide.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:49 UTC

The nightmare of a superheated imagination,
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:49 UTC

We strongly recommend all our readers who novelty to get this story, for we can promise them that they never have danything like it before, "The author only had three ideas: but those are nothing more and nothing less than life and love and death," #Fresán24 #TheDreamedPart

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:49 UTC

Hers was Jane Eyre, to end up offering and delivering that revolutionary line, looking the reader in the eyes, "Reader, I married him" (and not "Reader, he married me" or "Reader, we got married").
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:49 UTC

Nothing upsets or unsettles someone who doesn't read than the happiness of someone reading.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:48 UTC

Really, what the Karmas actually want is for Penelope to spend less time reading alone-which makes them nervous; nothing unnerves a Karma more than solitude, not being seen and not seeing everyone else and for her to be with them all the time talking more.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:48 UTC

Back then, you read to know you were alive, to live more.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:48 UTC

the best way to do it is not to blink and to focus all your attention on another family.

Thus the Brontës.

The most functional of dysfunctional families.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:48 UTC

while Emily Bronte and her Wuthering Heights are unequivocally the hallucinnatory John Lennon, disorienting everyone with a 'Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to... Nothing is real'
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:47 UTC

Charlotte Bronte and her Jane Eyre are definitely the romantic Paul McCartney advising When I find myself in times of trouble... Let it be'.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:47 UTC

Sometimes Penelope thinks of her bad brother, writer and exwriter poor little thing: his mind overpopulated and Vonnegutified and Cheeverified Bobdylanized and Proustified and Nabokovified and...
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:47 UTC

Their lines of dialogue becoming the hook of a monologue Penelope recites in the solitude of her convent-asylum cell/study.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:46 UTC

And she carries it home with her, never suspecting it's really the book that's carrying her, the book that will read her over and over again throughout the novel of her life.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:46 UTC

but they all keep repeating those names as if they were nouns and verbs and predicates. Heathcliff's Catherine catherinian heathcliffically by the heathcliffs and among the catherines.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:46 UTC

His surroundings are not a landscape. They're a living-dead nature. A still life in suspension, in suspended animation.
And he's tired of all of it, tired of all that nothing.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:46 UTC

So far, the stars haven't answered, but, Bertie insists, they've told him that they'll reveal something soon, that they're thinking it over, that he be patient, that he not lose hope.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:45 UTC

If I were ever to have a daughter, I would name her Stella D'Or. Estrella de oro. Star of Gold. Light the darkness."
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:45 UTC

Something cool. Someone described him in the press as "a Marlboro Man who smokes a pipe. Someone on TV dubbed him "the Indiana Jones of languages."
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:45 UTC

Stella D'Or's father is a linguist of international fame. Someone who believes in the power of words with the same intensity with which others believe in the fragile power of weapons or in the cowardly valor and value of money.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:43 UTC

And I don't have a single freckle or mole anywhere on my skin . Which doesn't me, of course, from being the most impassioned of all racists.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:42 UTC

Every story can be rewritten in the dark.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:41 UTC

And is it worthwhile to dwell on the fact that, in the realm of non-fiction, the goodbye Stella D'Or admires most is that of the almost- nicading Pancho Villa, concerned with his place in History, begging, "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something"?
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:41 UTC

It goes like this: 'Rage, rage, against the dying of the dark. Here comes the night. The Night." #Fresán24 #TheDreamedPart

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

And we all spring from the darkness of our fathers to be conceived the darkness of our mothers... How'd it go? What was the line? Ah, yes But now, changing one key word, to give it a new meaning... How's it go now?
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

And it's by night and not during the day that Abraham becomes aware of the existence of a supreme and absolute being, the one who commands, let there be light...
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

And don't ever forget that the Quran is revealed during the Night of Power, the most significant night according to Islam, for-the night when Mohammad makes his journey from Jerusalem to Mecca, and from there, to Heaven under cover of the most sacred darkness...
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

The 'dark and normy night' that opens that purple & Victorian novel by Edward Bulwer- Lyton-who also postulated that 'the pen is mightier than the sword-in first line that so many people mock because they actually admire & envy -And I want to be like that opening line.
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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

The night when things forbidden by day are permitted. The night without all that light containing it.
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