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Anonymous Fri Apr 8 15:17:29 2011 No.1689713 [Reply] [Original]

/lit/ seems extra slow today. Must be the fucking fantastic weather here in Canterbury.

Anybody read The Waves? I'm using it in a paper about modernism and I love it. The way Woolf shows her characters ageing through different first-person accounts and their comparison to the environment is beautiful.

I would consider getting a tattoo some of the prose. It's that good.

Agree/disagree? Waves/Woolf general?

Anonymous Fri Apr 8 15:27:29 2011 No.1689721
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This isn't one of my favourite quotes, but it's a good representation of the work. And it's a great example of how the landscape is created through the dreamlike imagination of the characters. The end of the quote is quite beautiful, as well.

>>	Donne !!+SByMppsy+r Fri Apr 8 15:35:29 2011 No.1689727 My favourite book, even over and above Pale Fire. It's the closest prose has come to poetry.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 15:39:29 2011 No.1689735 >>1689727 Absolutely. I haven't read Pale Fire but I've read other Nabokov. I would also suggest An Imaginary Life by David Malouf. It's a quick read and extremely beautiful prose.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 21:13:29 2011 No.1690298 File: 25 KB, 372x495, vw.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 21:17:29 2011 No.1690306 >>1689721 brb going out and buying this

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 21:20:29 2011 No.1690311 What's your favorite line from the novel?

Anonymous Fri Apr 8 21:42:29 2011 No.1690341

>>1690311
Tough question. I think right now this is my favourite line- "There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'."

It's just so honest in the context of the story you have to feel it. And outside the text it could be interpreted many different ways.

Anonymous Fri Apr 8 21:58:29 2011 No.1690364

"There is, then, a world immune from change. But I am not composed enough, standing on tiptoe on the verge of fire, still scorched by the hot breath, afraid of the door opening and the leap of the tiger, to make even one sentence. What I say is perpetually contradicted. Each time the door opens I am interrupted. I am not yet twenty-one. I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens. I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness"
I nearly cried the first time I read this passage.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 21:59:29 2011 No.1690367 fucking love the waves i should read it again sometime as for favourite lines it's one of those books where i ended up underlining a load every other page so it's just pointless to try and pick

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 23:03:29 2011 No.1690447 >>1690364 amazing. >>1690367 yeah it's like every line is your favourite line. i know what you mean.

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