Post your favourite passages from the book you are currently reading

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Fuck me, is it obvious who wrote that even if you haven't read the book.

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>>22721974
What's wrong with having a distinct style?

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>>22722309
I didn't imply it was wrong. No judgement at all; just noticed it.

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>>22721962
Based

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>But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.
>...He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself, and he could not himself have loved any but beautiful, mysterious, and exceptional women.
I hope everything turns out well for him.

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>>22721962
Oedipa, perverse, had stood in front of the painting and cried. No one had noticed; she wore dark green bubble shades. For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry. She had looked down at her feet and known, then, because of a painting, that what she stood on had only been woven together a couple thousand miles away in her own tower, was only by accident known as Mexico, and so Pierce had taken her away from nothing, there'd been no escape. What did she so desire escape from? Such a captive maiden, having plenty of time to think, soon realizes that her tower, its height and architecture, are like her ego only incidental: that what really keeps her where she is is magic, anonymous and malignant, visited on her from outside and for no reason at all. Having no apparatus except gut fear and female cunning to examine this formless magic, to understand how it works, how to measure its field strength, count its lines of force, she may fall back on superstition, or take up a useful hobby like embroidery, or go mad, or marry a disk jockey. If the tower is everywhere and the knight of deliverance no proof against its magic, what else?

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>>22721962

Augustine BTFO the stoics:

“And the city or society of the wicked, who live not according to God, but according to man, and who accept the doctrines of men or devils in the worship of a false and contempt of the true divinity, is shaken with those wicked emotions as by diseases and disturbances. And if there be some of its citizens who seem to restrain and, as it were, temper those passions, they are so elated with ungodly pride, that their disease is as much greater as their pain is less. And if some, with a vanity monstrous in proportion to its rarity, have become enamoured of themselves because they can be stimulated and excited by no emotion, moved or bent by no affection, such persons rather lose all humanity than obtain true tranquillity. For a thing is not necessarily right because it is inflexible, nor healthy because it is insensible.”

Will they ever recover?

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>>22723061
Who is it, mccarthy or sum’?

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>"I am much mistaken if Emma's doctrines give any strength of mind, or tend at all to make a girl adapt herself rationally to the varieties of her situation in life. They only give a little polish."

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>>22721962
That fucking "Gilt by association" shit from one of the city watch books (I think the on where Sam got made a duke) lives rent free in my head.

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>>22724609
its Intruder in the Dust by Faulkner

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>>22721962
I don't read, I write and translate, so I will quote my favourite passage so far from my translation of the Aeneid:

City antique there was, Tyre held settlers-of,
Carthage, Italia opposite Tiber-and-its far
mouths, blessed wealth zealous-and fiercest of war;
who Iuno holds lands-of greater all one
place-after-she cherished Samnos; here her arms,
here chariot has been; this kingdom goddess’s people are,
if fates allow, now then she tends-and favours-and.

168.19

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>>22725709
Solid work, why don't you read though?

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>>22723198
Just starting AK? You're in for a good one. Levin makes it out alright. Posting my favorite from Portrait.
>From the theatre opposite came the muffled noise of the audience and sudden brazen clashes of the soldiers’ band. The light spread upwards from the glass roof making the theatre seem a festive ark, anchored among the hulks of houses, her frail cables of lanterns looping her to her moorings. A side door of the theatre opened suddenly and a shaft of light flew across the grassplots. A sudden burst of music issued from the ark, the prelude of a waltz: and when the side door closed again the listener could hear the faint rhythm of the music. The sentiment of the opening bars, their languor and supple movement, evoked the incommunicable emotion which had been the cause of all his day’s unrest and of his impatient movement of a moment before. His unrest issued from him like a wave of sound: and on the tide of flowing music the ark was journeying, trailing her cables of lanterns in her wake.

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>>22726544
I'm more interested in making the world than spectating it.

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Bumping.

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Call of Wells Fargo

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>>22721962
>spectral
>intact
>tallow coloured
>empty
It's faulkner alright. Hate this fucker.

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>>22721975
Fuck this guy. Everything is "immobile, montonous, repetition". He spams them like he owns these words.